The Global Atlas

Look at that face. Look how benevolent he looks. As world leaders including Pres. Obama streamed into Riyadh this weekend to pay their ...

In leading up to Human Rights Day on December 10 th , recent news seems to mask any progress: UN-authorized French troops intervene in CAR ...

Over the last week, The Global Atlas’s metaphorical lights have been off as the three lead contributors were either out of town, dealing wi...

GHANA—In a remote village hours from Tamale, USAID worker Valerie DeFillipo and her colleagues arrived to a warm welcome from the small ...

Over the past few days, I’ve heard a lot of people congratulating Egyptians on toppling their president for the second time in two years. T...

The last round of negotiations in 2010.  State Department Photo by Michael Gross An entrenched stalemate persists between Israelis and ...

The main chambers of the United Nations Human Rights Council We’ve all been there: you’re immersed in another culture—either...

Since 1962, the large Asian nation alternately known as Burma and Myanmar for complex political reasons has lived under a brutal...

The Global Atlas of late has been consumed by the tragedy in Boston that affected all of our contributors directly. Yet while...

In the summer o f 2012 , I wrote an article on the failure of the international community to reach a voting consensus on the Arms Trade Tr...

On the tail end of Pres. Obama’s trip throughout the Middle East, Secretary of State John Kerry made his first trip to Afghanist...

Saudi Arabia executed seven young men this morning for the crime of robbery. That might seem a bit extreme, but in the Kingdom, ...