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It hasn’t been this threatened since the 1930s. By Walter Russell Mead Sept. 25, 2023 6:06 pm ETS, WSJ The most important fact in world politics is that 19 months after Vladimir Putin challenged the so-called rules-based international order head-on by invading Ukraine, the defense of that order is not going well. The world is less stable…

The UN system demonstrates serious inadequacies. The war in Ukraine, with no end in sight, is another example of its failures.

Ganeshan Wignaraja is a senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute, London.

WARSAW – Globalization brings the world together through the movement of people, things, ideas, money, and much else....

The U.S.-Africa partnership in the fight against HIV/AIDS created a historic precedent that will inform the scope and scale of future global health and development campaigns. Over the past eight years,U.S.-Africa political and economic cooperation have intensified toaddress shared interests. Historically high levels of aid to Africashould continue because strengthened African partners are in theU.S. national interest.

The members of G7 or to some extent the members of G20, have leverages to build such rules-based policy, but the rest of the countries, more than 180 of them, cannot contribute much to this process

President Obama should make clear where the U.S. should stand on the key issues that will be at the fore of the U.N.’s consideration.

We must never take for granted the march of free­dom. AsHeritage President Ed Feulner showed in his 1998 book of thattitle, the line is never straight, and the walk is never easy. Infact, it can be very costly and fraught with setbacks anddisappointments.

This week Washington will host the fifth Sub-Saharan Africa Tradeand Economic Cooperation Forum, which will bring togethergovernments and representatives of the private sector and civilsociety to discuss how the African Growth and Opportunity Act(AGOA) "can continue to be a vehicle to increase trade, investmentand economic cooperation between the United States and sub-SaharanAfrican eligible countries."  Economic growth and developmentin sub-Saharan Africa depends greatly on increasin...

DR-CAFTA, which would liberalize trade between the United States,the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras, and Nicaragua, offers a framework for increasing economicgrowth that will bolster political stability and enhancehemispheric stability and security; it would also spur growth inregional job creation, thereby helping to mitigate illegalmigration to the United States.