As the largest country entirely within Europe, and given its strategic position as the energy gateway between Europe and Russia, Ukraine has tremendous economic potential. At the same time, its historical links to Russia complicate efforts to consolidate stable democratic practices. The prospect ...

It has become popular to argue that American energy security and climate change challenges can be solved by a series of "win-win" policies that tackle both problems at once. A look at the future of the Canadian oil sands calls that belief into question. Exploiting the oil sands would boost the wo...

The policy discussion over immigration into the United States has been in constant gridlock for nearly three decades. Focusing primarily on issues of illegal immigration and border entry and undocumented aliens in the United States, Congress passed significant legislation in 1986 and 1996 that wa...

As world energy prices continue to rise and Russia's oil and gas production accelerate, Russian officials increasingly talk of their country as an "energy superpower." By reversing the economic decline of the 1990s, Russia's oil and gas have given the Kremlin the financial resources -- as well as...

In recent years, the dangers associated with nuclear weapons and the complexities of addressing these dangers have steadily grown. Relations with a nuclear-armed Russia could become adversarial. China's level of strategic development of nuclear technology remains unclear. Nuclear technologies are...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is volatile and unstable, with the Congolese people suffering from an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. The worst instances of sexual violence in the world and massive displacement of people are occurring in eastern Congo. The situation would be even worse wit...