Foreign Assistance

Latest Research

January 04, 2011 / By Gordon Adams, Matthew Leatherman
A Leaner and Meaner Defense
How to Cut the Pentagon’s Budget While Improving Its Performance Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, (Jan/Feb 2011). Copyright (2011) by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. An op-ed summarizing this essay appeared in the…Read More »

September 23, 2010 / By Richard Cronin
Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on Water and Security in Southeast Asia
  Statement of Richard P. Cronin Director, Southeast Asia Program Stimson Center, Washington, DC   Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on Challenges to Water and Security in Southeast Asia   September 23, 2010   Mr. Chairman, Thank…Read More »

July 28, 2010 / By Laura Hall
The Future of S/CRS
As the long-awaited Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) proceeds through its summer schedule, there has been a lot of speculation about the future of one particular part of the State Department: the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and…Read More »

July 20, 2010 / By Eric Lief, Jennifer Kates
Financing the response to AIDS in low-income & middle-income countries
The latest analysis of global AIDS assistance financing for 2009, tracking levels of government bilateral programs and contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has been released by UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report…Read More »

June 10, 2010 / By Sarah Kornblet
Rebuilding a Stronger Haiti
In late May, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill authorizing $2 billion in reconstruction funds for Haiti over the next 2 years. The ‘‘Haiti Empowerment, Assistance, and Rebuilding Act of 2010,” co-sponsored by Sens. John Kerry [D-MA] and…Read More »