Truman National Security Project

Truman Fellow Anka Lee highlights a different side of China’s economic development. When watching the television program “60 Minutes” report earlier this month about China’s real estate bubble—“the most populated nation on earth is building houses, districts, and cities with no one in them”—I was immediately remineded of a trip to the southern Chinese manufacturing city of Dongguan. [...]

When the television program “60 Minutes” aired a report earlier this month about China’s real estate bubble—“the most populated nation on earth is building houses, districts, and cities with no one in them”—a trip to the southern Chinese manufacturing city of Dongguan immediately came to my mind. One afternoon five summers ago, after a two-hour [...]

America’s bold foreign policy vision needs to be matched with a bold development strategy.  One recent idea published in The Guardian by Oxfam’s Jennifer Lentfer centered on the need to foster an entrepreneurial spirit amongst aid workers to achieve systemic change.  To balance welcome but complicated-to-explain initiatives like the 2015 30% Procurement Reform Target, Lentfer [...]

Strategic investments in foreign aid are essential to national security. My mantra isn’t “do more with less,” but simply, “do better.”

Kosovo is by comparison to most of the world’s countries a small place, geographically, demographically, and economically.  It has also inherited as a result of its history unique and formidable challenges stemming from its Ottoman past and the more recent disintegration of Yugoslavia.  All of these factors make it problematic that it will be a [...]