The destruction of Zimbabwe, like that of Nicaragua two decades earlier, offers important cautionary lessons for other developing countries.

The solution to Brazil's high murder rate seemed obvious to the Brazilian government, the media, and the United Nations: Ban guns. But almost two thirds of Brazil's voters rejected the proposal.

AEI and the Project 2049 Institute will cohost a conference examining US policy toward China, particularly American engagement of Chinese civil society.

The financial crisis of 2007-09 cost taxpayers in the United States and Europe the equivalent of some 25 percent of world GDP in guarantees and subsidies tomaintain financial stability. This has prompted a major rethinking by governments, financial regulators and central banks of how financial institutions and markets should be supervised and regulated.

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Development economists like to study success—how to pull a country out of poverty, how to spur growth, how to improve living conditions—but how do they study a country like Zimbabwe, which has undergone a rapid and devastating...

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

The real reason that Zimbabwe has collapsed is that there is no protection of private property. The result is "dead capital" and total economic annihilation.

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