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It has only been a few days since the New Year fireworks lit up the skies of many of the world’s cities. For a brief moment, it was...

Although the embers have since cooled in one of the most hotly anticipated and closely watched midterm elections in the US, its striking...

Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute is pleased to introduce "Four Minute Foreign Policy," a series dedicated to providing...

An unmistakable sense of despair and gloom accompanies most news reports and literature on the state of affairs in Libya after 2011. The...

One of Tunisia’s many jobless graduates detonated a home-made suicide bomb in the capital last month. This was not a Daesh attack, it was...

Everywhere you look, the Arab world is changing — and fast. A decade or two ago, most countries in the region had an unusual system in...

Talk of the “next recession” is often dismissed as alarmist fear-mongering. The wounds of the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting...

A century ago, only 10 percent of us lived in cities. According to the UN, 55 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas,...

Brain drains have existed as long as there has been economic disparity between geographic areas. More recently, they have been among the...

For 70-odd years, the world has experienced a period of relative peace and stability achieved through global cooperation and the...