Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is President and CEO of the think tank New America, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.
Mark Green, who was recently nominated to head the US Agency for International Development, has been hailed by advocates of aid and diplomacy. To advance his goals, Green would do well to increase the… read more
Populism means a politics of the people, juxtaposed against a politics of the elites. But, at least in the US, President Donald Trump’s ideology – which has little to do with traditional Republican co… read more
Judging by US President Donald’s Trump isolationist rhetoric, it seems safe to assume that his administration’s foreign policy will upend many long-held assumptions about America’s role in the world. … read more
Had Hillary Clinton won, she would have joined the UK’s Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, helping achieve critical mass in the G7, while a female UN Secretary-General would have placed … read more
Many foreign policymakers in the US and around the world still don’t seem able to grasp that examining the behavior of women and men alike can improve their analysis and their proposed measures. Indee… read more
In Latin America and elsewhere, women, especially mothers of victims of violence, are constantly at the forefront of human-rights activism. Where state institutions or elected officials fail to take a… read more
For many critics, the failure of the Iraq War proves that interventionist Western foreign policies are both futile and immoral. But interventions should never be assessed on the basis of the success o… read more
According to the UN, ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are depriving more than 13 million children of an education, while the youth unemployment rate is the highest in the world. G… read more
Entrepreneurship has become a catalyst for progress in resolving conflict worldwide. The focus on job and wealth creation has become a “talking point” upon which nearly all governments can agree – or … read more
