[T]he intertwined nature of language, politics, and identity permeates the nation, its institutions, and the public and private lives of its citizens.

Rather than addressing the trauma inflicted by genocidal violence, the ruling party has used a program of national ethnic unity and reconciliation to reinforce its political authority.

Ankara is cozying up to Moscow in a momentary fit of pique with the West, but economic and security realities make it likely that Turkey will stay in NATO's camp.

“Contemporary India's key values and institutions hold great promise for managing multiethnic societies, especially in the developing world.” Seventh in a series on soft power around the world.

[T]he arrest of Ntaganda and his trial should serve as reminders to the Rwandan authorities that their interference in DRC is no longer acceptable, if it ever was.

To promote innovation through scientific and technological advance is also to promote social change—often radical social change.

Paul Ehrlich held that voracious consumption would leave the West reeling when essential resources ran out. Julian Simon believed that people should be allowed to consume as they like because they can rely on technology or ingenuity to find a way forward. Both were too constricted in their perspective.

Rwanda's resurrection of a traditional method of resolving conflict may serve as an example to other traumatized societies in Africa that are wrestling with the question of how to live with former enemies.

The experience in Bosnia and Kosovo provides encouragement. … The largest postintervention lesson they offer is that the United States and its international partners can work effectively together once they are on the ground together.

Saddam may be gone but many Iraqis still think as they were taught to think: the United States is our enemy and helping the us occupation is unpatriotic. These are mindsets that may be hard to change, even if Baathism as a political movement is banned. It could require a generational shift, in which case there is little now that the United States … or any Iraqi provisional governing council can do.

It is in the battle for Islam's soul that the United States and liberal Islam share a common strategic goal: the systematic dismantlement and delegitimization of the rogue Islamist discourse that portrays America as an anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence.