Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Pope Francis, whose two-country “pilgrimage of peace” to Africa concluded over the ...

The legacy of Gunnar Myrdal is in his having posed in very important ways two central questions: the explanations of, and practical solutions for, racism and underdevelopment; the relationship between ...

In his book: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney, Guyanese scholar and activist, logically linked Africa’s underdevelopment to the exploitation suffered in the hands of capitalist Europe ...

Jair Bolsonaro (L), President of Brazil, holds the arm of Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina, during the opening ceremony of the Mercosur Summit. With the demise of the import substitution ...

Though much of the current discussion about global imbalances focuses on the swelling current account deficit in the U.S., the other side of this imbalance itself presents a puzzle. Specifically, the ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.