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Africa: Fighting Corruption with Mobile Phones

Jenny C. Aker et al. | Center for Global Development | July 2010
Once the plaything of the yuppie generation, mobile phones are conquering Africa: Today, nearly 60 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa have access to the technology. The period 2002 through 2007 witnessed a yearly growth of 49 percent in ...More

African Union Needs a Permanent Seat at the G-20

Tom Cargill | Chatham House | July 2010
Africa should no longer be regarded through the narrow lens of humanitarian aid. For the sake of economic interests, the developed world's public would do well to discard these images that have long outlived their usefulness. Africa is growing in ...More

Changing Demographics in Europe and NATO

Phillip R. Cuccia | Strategic Studies Institute| May 2010
The implications of the demographic changes in Europe and their effect on NATO are a topic that deserves greater attention in the discussions surrounding NATO’s new strategic concept. This notwithstanding, the greatest challenge to NATO remains the ...More

Positive Military Side Effects: More Energy for Developing Countries

Roy H. Adams III et al. | Joint Force Quarterly | May 2010
A rather unexpected side effect of the military’s efforts to rely to a greater extent on green technologies is evident in the context of developing countries: It can lead to significant improvements in the energy situation ...More

The Real Challenge for NATO

James M. Goldgeier | Council on Foreign Relations | April 2010
While the guarantee of territorial integrity of a member state under Article V of the NATO treaty remains relevant today, it no longer suffices to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Article V was drafted with an eye to the threat constituted by the Soviet Union in ...More

Dangers of a Nuclear Renaissance

Trevor Findlay et al. | Ctr for Internat. Governance Innovation | April 2010
The newly published U.S. nuclear posture review has renewed media attention to the nuclear arms proliferation issue. Less well-known are the other dangers posed by nuclear energy. Given the urgency of the search for low-emission sources of energy, nuclear energy has ...More

Service Providers Hold Great Potential

McKinsey Report | April 2010
Politicians need to realize that each sector needs to be handled separately. Dynamic growth tends to be due to a vibrant service sector. That segment alone was responsible for net growth in the period 1995 to 2005 in high income countries. Policy makers need to ...More

Fighting Terrorism: Need New US Information Agency

Douglas J. Feith et al. | The Hudson Institute | April 2010
The West has yet to draw the appropriate lessons of the Cold War for the fight against international terrorism. That war after all was not won by military strikes, but rather by campaigning on the information front. "Smart power" and strategic ...More

New Rules of War for the Fight Against Terror Networks

John Arquilla | Foreign Policy | April 2010
The much-discussed troop surges are not needed to win the wars of today, instead, an entirely new way of waging war is required. but an entirely new way of waging war. The rules of war have fundamentally changed. Yet the U.S. military, like so ...More

Charter Cities: Pilot Projects in the Fight Against Poverty

Paul Romer | Center for Global Development | April 2010
Neither resource scarcity nor lacking technological progress truly threatens to stall the fight against poverty worldwide in the 21st century. Rather the greatest hurdle to economic growth will stem from the inability of governments to ...More