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Contrary to the perception of many outside observers, the Syrian state’s core bureaucratic and administrative institutions are not run by men with long beards in military khakis, but by technocrats who returned from exile and know what they are doing.
Technocrats at the helm
Just consider the case of Syria’s 47-year-old minister of communication...
Thanksgiving is my favorite celebration of the year. Christmas is so much more stressful, fraught as it usually is with its imbalance of excess and fragility of temper.
Thanksgiving also comes with so much less family pressure and e...
In a world where one day a country seeks integration and the next day an isolationist comes along and throws even the notion of global or cross-border cooperation into the trash bin, one of the most important aspects of the rule of law is deeply eroded: The predictability of outcome (of relations, compliance etc.).
International accords that are agreed to are only as ...
Unless checked, the world is heading into a period of increasing authoritarianism. This means more kleptocracy, more public corruption and more money laundering.
In such a world, organized crime will expand, as will violence and the potential for transnational conflict.
As President Trump marches ahead with policies that are increasingly undermining global sec...
The United States’ “War on Drugs,” inaugurated in the early 1970s, set out to suppress domestic drug consumption and dismantle trafficking networks through a combination of aggressive law enforcement, interdiction and crop eradication overseas.
Yet, half a century on, U.S. anti-drug policies have neither appreciably reduced U.S. demand nor eradicated the international...
