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Research Associate Ethan Kessler explains the benefits and drawbacks of what’s become a major US foreign policy tool.

African cities have emerged as proxy arenas where different modes of international relations are given effect through the development of infrastructure.

"Bipartisan consensus (on the scope of the threat) needs to be reconsidered because the wrong diagnosis could yield the wrong, or even dangerous, prescriptions," Paul Heer writes.

Washington has started selling arms that serve a "porcupine" defense strategy to Taiwan. Whether Taipei fully embraces this new approach remains to be seen.

"We have to deal with China and the way to deal with it is to engage with it," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer in the Wire China.

This book provides the non-specialist reader with the background to understand the debates about trade.

The success of ambitious states will be determined by their ability to shape global infrastructures and the cities they connect around the world.