The article mentions the report's revelation of a letter exchanged between the Chinese consortium and Congolese agency responsible for the project, after the parties involved in the construction failed to agree on the shares each would receive.
In an essay for The New York Times Sunday Review, Non-Resident Fellow James Traub asks whether liberalism has a future in a United States beset by populist politics.
Traub argues that "forty years of swelling illiberalism on the right—and some reciprocal illiberalism on the left—have deeply corroded" public faith in political institutions, and a Democratic victory in 2020 will be insufficient to restore that faith without a new commitment to liberal values.
In a new column for Foreign Policy, Non-Resident Fellow James Traub argues changing US policy on Syria is forcing an overdue conversation about America's role in the Middle East.
Traub draws on Democratic presidential candidates' debate statements about President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria to explore the emerging "dogma of restraint" and its implications for the future.
CIC's Congo Research Group Director Jason Stearns was interviewed in an article in The Nation about the human impact of conflict in Congo.
“The fighting in recent years shows that peace and stability in eastern Congo are elusive,” Stearns said. “A comprehensive approach is needed, including an invigorated demobilization program and deep-seated reforms at every level of the state to counter impunity.”
For Foreign Policy, CIC Non-Resident Fellow James Traub reviews recently published memoirs by Susan Rice and Samantha Power.
In the review, Traub evaluates former National Security Advisor Susan Rice's Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For and former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's The Education of an Idealist, and explores what they reveal about the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy.
CIC Research Associate Said Sabir Ibrahimi was quoted in El Periódico about the peace negotiations with Taliban in Afghanistan.
"The Taliban never accepted a ceasefire," Ibrahimi said. "If an agreement had been signed in Doha, we would not know what would have happened between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Really ending the war would have needed much more. There has been no dialogue between the different Afghan factions. "
Leah Zamore, CIC's Humanitarian Crises Program director, spoke to The New Humanitarian about the "triple nexus": the effort to coordinate humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding work. "The aspiration is systemic change,” she said regarding the effectiveness of the approach in practice, “and that invariably takes time."
Read the full article at The New Humanitarianhere.
Congo’s $14 Billion Dam Project Threatened by Disagreements
Bloomberg cited the "Inga III: Kept in the Dark" report by the Congo Research Group and Resource Matters.
The article mentions the report's revelation of a letter exchanged between the Chinese consortium and Congolese agency responsible for the project, after the parties involved in the construction failed to agree on the shares each would receive.