Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Jacob Patterson-Stein Making predictions can be risky. Models fail, experts disagree, and externalities abound. There were people who claimed unrest in Tunisia would have minimal impact in the wider region. How many hats have been eaten in the last year? That said, if terrorism was the defining international issue of the first decade of […]
by Ina Katherine Cook For the past half century, the African continent has been rife with upheaval in numerous attempts to stabilize nascent institutional structures. Despite these attempts and billions of dollars in international aid, sub-Saharan Africa is still facing a development crisis. Susceptible to disease, treacherous weather, conflict and corruption, southern Africa faces a quandary as to what […]