
Why there are relatively few African Americans in the senior ranks of the U.S. military and what can be done about it.

The promotion of the rule of law across borders should be implemented based on clear and objective standards, and distinguished from state-building exercises.

Democracy support organizations are struggling to maintain operations in states with hostile environments. They need to reassess their approach in such countries and seek to address the political drivers of repression.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the democratic backsliding that has been unfolding worldwide for a decade. Democratic reform must be advanced at the international level and enhanced in a regional framework.
While negligible in terms of total numbers, the growing elite brain drain—already highly visible in the scientific community, where scholars face a dramatic shortage of research funds—is deeply troubling.
With each passing day, the enemy becomes increasingly unbearable for both sides. Given the brutality of this war—a brutality that was inherent in the invasion from the beginning—this is not surprising.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.

Paul Haenle will sit down with Anja Manuel to examine ongoing challenges to the global rules-based order. This discussion is the second of Carnegie China's 2022 Distinguished Speakers Series and will also be recorded and published as a China in the World podcast.
The direction in which Washington seems to be heading is on one level a continuation of U.S. global primacy. But on another level, it’s something qualitatively different, where the United States faces real risks of a great-power conflict for the perpetual future.