Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth

In past decades, every presidential administration beginning with President Carter has attempted to secure peace for this terror-filled yet tiny land because doing so promises enhanced stability for the greater Middle East region. But despite billions of dollars in foreign aid, countless diplomatic visits, and thousands of man hours, no administration has found…

Thomas Hobbes once wrote that “the condition of man...is a condition of war.”¹

Violence—as a vehicle for achieving greater political goals—is a natural phenomenon. But what policies can reverse the inclination for violence and foster peace instead?

The following memorandum extrapolates lessons from Northern Ireland's “Troubles”— a sectarian war…

The tidal wave of growth carrying India for the past decades following the 1991 reforms has proven to be just that – a wave that is now subsiding, leaving the world’s largest democracy stranded on a barren beach. Time is cheap, poverty is plentiful, and growth has taken leave as…