Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Foreign policy experts discuss why the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying already grave economic and security problems.
How a president chooses his language on foreign policy and national security often dictates how he governs.
The early-morning airstrike hit the Tajoura migrant detention center in Tripoli, housing some 600 people. Survivors said they had no warning and no protection.
Repression can incite greater disorder within a region and export violence to other places. Instead, to heal a society of epidemic violence requires the middle class helped by social organizers and politicians willing to make deals.
Decivilization can happen anywhere when violence becomes regularized. However, recovery is possible when complicit states reform and regular people, especially the middle class, address the violence and disorder in their communities.
Getting on the road to recivilization requires fixing violent and corrupt systems. Such reform can shift the incentives on the ground and may provide an opportunity for deeper change in society.
Highly unequal societies are some of the most violent places on earth. Recovery requires an attentive middle class and politicians willing to make deals.
The distinction between political and criminal violence is not as stark as many think. When governments become complicit with violence these distinctions begin to blur.
One-third of Indian state and national legislators enter office with pending criminal charges. Do voters actually prefer criminal candidates?