Before countries possessed the capacity to create and maintain ocean-going navies, privateers dominated the business of protecting maritime commerce from the risks of piracy, sabotage, and other threats. As key maritime countries developed their navies, they phased out privateering in order to ensure a monopoly over armed conflict and, therefore, state power. The last century […]
Unlike a civil war or natural disaster, an epidemic does not destroy property. But it sharply increases the cost of doing business, with powerful effects on employment and investment. This is happening in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone where the secondary impacts of the Ebola crisis have been seen in terms of shuttered businesses and […]
A federal audit has found problems with the State Department’s oversight of security at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. The audit, issued November 3, showed that, years after the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and long after Washington policymakers pledged to bolster protection for diplomats in danger zones, the State Department […]
C3PO International Ltd. filed a counterclaim against DynCorp International, LLC’s bid to escape a nearly $6.6 million Texas federal court suit over the abandonment of a C3PO facility (Camp Pinnacle) in Afghanistan following a bombing, saying it had “easily” met the threshold to plead breach of contract. C3PO, a subcontractor to DynCorp under a U.S. Department […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah recently traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Senegal, to meet with national and local officials, aid organizations, and staff coordinating the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. USAID is helping to coordinate an aggressive U.S. Government response to the Ebola outbreak […]