Recent Writings

• Against All Odds: How ‘Crazy’ Kim Jong Il Outfoxed the World
• And Once More the World Shrugs at the Congo
• Surviving Mao, Revamping a Nation
• EO Wilson’s Theory of Everything
• In Africa, an Election Reveals Skepticism of Chinese Involvement (Atlantic)
• Young And Dangerous: What can be done to prevent peacekeepers from having to fire on armed children?

Recent Blog Posts

• What does it mean to be fluent?
• The Perils of American Exceptionalism
• UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
• Things I liked (to read)
• New Years
• China in 10 Words – from the best books 0f 2011

Snippets

• Not Fade Away: The Myth of American Decline
• Lunch with Zbigniew Brzezinski
• “India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power” by E. Mawdsley and G. McCann
• China’s ‘Demographic Tsunami’ Begins
• The Writers that Shadow Us: on the ghost of Graham Greene.
• On Lucretius: THE ANSWER MAN

Public Speaking

• Columbia University’s African Diplomatic Forum (ADF) 2011
• “The Resource Boom and FDI in Africa”
• Revising Kagame: Myth and Reality After the Genocide in Rwanda
• New Ivorian Leader Faces Challenges, Criticism
• Video commentary on African rape
• Duke University Youthful Futures Conference

Photography