Foreign Policy

Gang members who are also inmates pose for a photograph at a prison in Quezaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador June 2, 2012. The relentless tit-for-tat murders between El Salvador's two largest street gangs - "Calle 18" and "Mara Salvatrucha" - made the country the most murderous in the world last year after neighboring Honduras, also ravaged by gang violence. That was until Garcia, from the Calle 18 ("18th Street") gang, along with elders from the Mara Salvatruchadeclared an unprecedented truce that authorities say has cut the homicide rate in half in just four months. Picture taken June 2, 2012. To match Feature SALVADOR-GANGS/ REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez (EL SALVADOR - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST) - RTR34YC6

Inside out: The challenge of prison-based criminal organizations

Benjamin Lessing

September 2016

Social media and the Islamic world

Anti-blasphemy in the digital age: When hardliners take over

September 2016

Brookings Seminar on Reconstituting Local Orders banner image

Reconstituting Local Orders

Monday, September 19, 2016

Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters walk on the rubble of damaged shops and buildings in the city of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August 10, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTSMDAF

Deconstructing Syria

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, September 16, 2016

Syrian and Iraqi refugees line up next to a fence at the Greek-Macedonian border February 27, 2016 as the border crossing is briefly reopened near the Greek village of Idomeni. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - RTS8AFP

The refugee and migration crisis: Proposals for action, U.N. Summit 2016

Michael Ignatieff, Juliette Keeley, Betsy Ribble, and Keith McCammon

Monday, September 12, 2016

U.S. President Barack Obama takes part in a trilateral meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Order at risk: Japan, Korea, and the Northeast Asian paradox

Jonathan D. Pollack

September 2016

France's missile M51 soars into the air during its first test in Biscarosse November 9, 2006. In a project to modernise France's nuclear arsenal, the M51 will weigh half again as much as the existing M45, allowing it to carry up to six warheads over an intercontinental range. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Third-country nuclear forces and possible measures for multilateral arms control

Steven Pifer and James Tyson

August 2016

Employees work on a drilling rig at the Rosneft-owned Prirazlomnoye oil field outside the West Siberian city of Nefteyugansk, Russia, August 4, 2016. Picture taken August 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin - RTSMPRX

A tale of two countries: Italy, Germany, and Russian gas

Giovanna De Maio

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Paper | India’s coal requirement by 2020: A bottom-up analysis

Anurag Sehgal and Rahul Tongia

Monday, August 8, 2016

Jabhat al-Nusra members pose on a tank in norther Idlib province

Profiling Jabhat al-Nusra

Wednesday, July 27, 2016