A new Stanley Foundation project examines ways in which the international community could become more unified over the next ten years. The foundation asked contributing authors to describe the paths by which nine powerful nations, the European Union, and a multinational corporation could all emerge as constructive stakeholders in a strengthened rules-based international order. Read [...]

The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants “is a hazard to the public health.”  “In the end, food safety is something I take seriously, not just as your president, but as a parent,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly radio and [...]

Conflicts associated with natural resources are twice as likely to relapse into conflict in the first five years, an imminent report suggests. Indeed the natural resource curse has been a primary determinant of intra-state conflict in terrible theatres of war such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia. Yet it extends far beyond the [...]