Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

The Battle From Algiers Lessons from the Charlie Hebdo Attack By Robin Simcox Recent history has shown that there will always be a new jihadist cause. If it is not France’s involvement in Libya in 2011, then it is its invasion of Mali in January 2013; if it is not foreign policy, it is domestic; if it is not banning head scarves in public, it is...

The Anti-Innovators How Special Interests Undermine Entrepreneurship By James Bessen Multibillion-dollar valuations in Silicon Valley have obscured underlying problems in the way the United States develops technology. Government policies increasingly favor powerful interest groups over promising start-ups, stifling technological innovation.

The G-Word The Armenian Massacre and the Politics of Genocide By Thomas de Waal A century on, discussions about the Ottoman massacre of Armenians are still dominated by questions surrounding the use of one fraught and divisive word: “Genocide.” Washington should use the term but also recognize its many limitations.

The Best of 2014: New Ebook From Foreign Affairs From Ukraine to Iraq, inequality to energy, this ebook highlights the editors' favorite print and web articles published in 2014. It's a must-read anthology that brings you the year’s top stories covered by the world's top thinkers.

Pegida Marches On How the Charlie Hebdo Attack Reinvigorated the Movement By Paul Hockenos Before the bloodshed in Paris, Pegida and its variants across the country, which oppose the “Islamization of Christian Europe” and Germany’s “foreign infiltration,” were faltering. No longer.

Start-Up Slowdown How the United States Can Regain Its Entrepreneurial Edge By Robert Litan Over the past 30 years, the rate of start-up formation in the United States has slowed down. To reclaim its status as a hub of innovation, the United States must tackle reforms in many areas, from immigration and business regulation to health care and education.

Syria's Democracy Jihad Why ISIS Fighters Support the Vote By Vera Mironova, Loubna Mrie, Richard Nielsen, and Sam Whitt Recent surveys conducted in Syria reveal that Islamist fighters are surprisingly supportive of democracy. Here's why.

Three Myths About Ebola The Stories the West Tells Itself By Emmanuel D'Harcourt Ebola’s reputation is fearsome. Its horrifying symptoms, quick human-to-human transmission, and exotic locale seem ready-made for a thriller movie. Indeed, in the midst of the largest Ebola virus outbreak ever, a real-time script is emerging. There’s just one problem: the...

The Kurds' Big Year The Political Conditions That Favor Kurdish Independence in Iraq By Micha'el Tanchum Since Massoud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, needs to move forward on a referendum for Kurdish independence while he still holds the political cards, 2015 may be the year that the Kurds secede from Iraq.

Four Myths About Ransoms Why Governments Should Pay Up By Adam Dolnik The brutal executions last year of five British and American hostages by ISIS have put the West’s hostage management policies under intense scrutiny. The "no ransoms" policy is a mistake—likely to endanger more lives than it saves.

Japan's Discomfort Women How Abe Can Improve Relations with South Korea By Jeffrey W. Hornung Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent electoral victory gave him some leeway to finally address the issue of comfort women, which plagues Japan’s relations with South Korea.

Fixing Fragile Cities Solutions for Urban Violence and Poverty By Robert Muggah Fragile cities—places where government authority is crumbling and violence runs deep—will be the world's greatest challenge in the coming decades. But turning such cities around is possible. Here's how.