For several weeks now it’s been clear that Putin won’t attend this month’s NATO summit in Chicago. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently spoke with Russia’s new/old president and explained that it’s “not possible and not practical” for Putin to participate because of his “busy domestic calendar.”

"Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines" explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

The UK prime minister's call to cut aid over gay rights is a play to a domestic audience.

Sub-Saharan Africa will not emerge as a global economic force unless there is a complete turnaround in its economic performance, but there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the shift to a new global development paradigm that would be far less dependent on natural resources.

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...

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

President Obama is right to send troops to advise African forces going after the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

Malaria country governments, donors, UN agencies, and advocates should focus on policy reforms needed to achieve sustained improvement in malaria treatment outcomes in Africa.