For the first time, many of the six hundred and eighty million people of Africa have the possibility of designing their own political institutions to rule themselves.

A plurality of the world's multiparty elections each year are now held in sub-Saharan Africa. This is an astonishing development given that multiparty elections were extremely rare on the continent fifteen years ago. Yet African countries are beset by widespread poverty, deep ethnic divisions, and weak government institutions, all factors...

Most Americans think that pressuring Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians isn't the right response to terrorist attacks against the United States, a new poll shows.

A new book on large African countries explores why these countries have security problems and what that means for Africa.

Jeffrey I. Herbst of Princeton University delivers the third of the 2004-2005 Bradley Lectures.