Summary: A sustainable political settlement to end the multiple conflicts in Syria will not be possible without a real focus on the challenges of refugee returns. A sustainable political settlement to ...

The Arab World is facing a set of economic and social challenges, at the forefront of which are unemployment, poverty and public debt. The latter is a major obstacle to making headway in development ...

Summary: It is time for all NATO countries to engage in a real strategic debate about why defense matters and what members should do to uphold the transatlantic relationship. The North Atlantic Treaty ...

There’s a lot to learn from the lobster. Its transformation from disdained prison food to fine-dining delicacy reveals how culture shapes our palate and how people could start to get a taste for food ...

The current transatlantic diplomatic approach to Iran has been successful so far, notably by putting mutually agreed limits on Tehran’s nuclear program with the interim accord of November 2013.

Summary: Egypt has presented an initiative to broker a deal between Hamas and Israel to end the current violence. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi cannot afford to see it fail. As the Israeli attack on ...

Lies Sahar, journalist covering Algeria’s oil and gas sector at the French-language Algerian daily newspaper El Watan. The dramatic drop in oil prices—and the low likelihood that they will return to ...

Carnegie's Minxin Pei, Michael Swaine, and Albert Keidel participated in a conference in Beijing jointly sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment and the China Reform Forum. The purpose of the conference ...

Texas has been betting big on oil since 1901, when its first well erupted at Spindletop, and over the past century, production has boomed. But new oil extraction techniques required to ensure ...

The internal debates over new amendments in Egypt reveal the renewed struggle between the president and the military for political dominance. Much of the focus on the Egyptian constitutional ...

Late last week sectarian violence on the Shiite holy day of Ashura killed at least thirty-one people in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. The news reported the tensions between the Shiite ...

On March 14, 2007, the Carnegie Endowment hosted the event “Between Politics and Markets: How is China’s Media Evolving” with Hu Shuli, the founder and editor of Caijing Magazine. Carnegie Senior ...