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Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel, talks to Foreign Affairs about succeeding in the mobile sector, innovating in the developing world, and the future of governance in Africa.

Socialism and declining oil prices are often blamed for Venezuela’s catastrophe, but in reality, it was decades of destructive leadership under Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, that transformed Venezuela into a poor country and criminalized state beholden to a foreign power.

As Trump and Congressional Republicans learn to work together, Congress will play a larger role in governance than it has in recent years. And Trump should remember that, in the last resort, Congress’ powers exceed his own.

The United States has been waging digital warfare for over a quarter century but, in the future, it must use its cyberpower cautiously as if such a war spun out of control, the United States would have the most to lose.

North Korea no longer poses a nonproliferation problem; it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. The United States should repeat the basic strategy that worked against the Soviet Union: practice careful deterrence until the regime in Pyongyang collapses under its own weight.

Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks, coral cuttings, and concrete are transforming miniscule Chinese-occupied outcroppings into sizeable islands with harbors, large multi-story buildings, airstrips, and other government facilities. The parties behind the construction and defense of these islands remain a thinly veiled secret.

A well developed Salafist scene helps explain the disproportionately high levels of radicalization in Catalonia.

Fuel cells and the future of energy.

To make lone wolf attacks less likely and prepare for those that do occur, governments should keep them isolated, build strong relationships between Muslim communities and law enforcement, monitor social media, and discredit the ideology that lone wolves embrace.

Even if neither the United States nor China want a nuclear war, a future conventional conflict between the two countries could slide into a nuclear crisis more easily than we think. Policymakers on both sides must be aware of this eventuality as tensions rise. 

The Trump administration’s bureaucratic problems do not come from an insidious, undemocratic “deep state” but simply from the state—the large, complex hive of people and procedures that constitute the U.S. federal government.

Every month, nearly one million people flee their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters.

A debate over Egyptian foreign policy and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Korb argues that Iraqi politicians and American generals, rather than the Obama administration, are to blame for the bungled withdrawal from Iraq. Brennan Replies.

Faced with Trump’s unprecedented belligerence, Mexico has few good options. The country’s best bet for dealing with Trump? Go around him.

Trump has jangled nerves on both sides of the Atlantic. But for all the shouting, it is not at all clear yet whether he will have a major impact on U.S.–European relations.

The case for deterrence.

In the U.S. military, at least, the “pivot” to Asia has begun. By 2020, the navy and the air force plan to base 60 percent of their forces in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pentagon, meanwhile, is investing a growing share of its shrinking resources in new long-range bombers and nuclear-powered submarines designed to operate in high-threat environments.

As Moscow assumes an aggressive new posture toward NATO, Blackwell argues, Washington must keep tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Blechman replies.

Credit and debt are more than just rational material exchanges within a market economy. They are socially constructed and center on matters of hard moral judgments about character, equity, and “good conscience.”