Experts analyze critical issues on what happens after the fighting abates, from global points of view.

Smart implementation is the key to effective international development assistance. Yet the development field has long been pulled between two conflicting imperatives on implementation.

Thomas Carothers and Richard Youngs review Sarah Bush’s new book, The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does Not Confront Dictators.

No issue in international development is as important, or vexing, as the relationship between governance and development.

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid.

With the arrival to power of the Obama administration there appears to be a lessening of the divide that opened up in recent years between Europe and the United States over democracy promotion policies and programs.

May 18, 2006 - Nathan Brown presented his Policy Brief "Living with Palestinian Democracy."  Larry Garber, the New Israel Fund, and Ori Nir, The Forward, served as discussants and Julia Choucair served as moderator.