Dr. J. Peter Pham
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 06:56
This year is shaping up to be a pivotal one for democracy in Africa, potentially setting the course of the continent’s political and economic development for years to come, and at a historic moment when its long-awaited economic takeoff finally seems to be getting underway.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 07:18
The reality is that neither Africa's opportunities nor its challenges can be properly understood exclusively in economic terms of growth rates and investments, whether governmental or private sector.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 05:30
If the president is serious about acting on what he described last Wednesday as his "unique responsibility to try and make this town work" and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the likely Senate majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January, continues to be of the mind that, as he expressed on election night, "we ought to start with the view that maybe there are some things we can agree on to make progress for the country," then the risk of continued government dysfunction latent in the institutional dynamics resulting from the voters' choices can be greatly mitigated. That's why it is important to identify policy areas where genuine bipartisan consensus can be found, to deliver some early successes for any renewed cooperation across the aisles and down both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Africa stands out as one such area.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 06:02
Even as, coming out of the annual NATO summit in Wales, the United States and its allies are promising to ratchet up their response to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, another militant group, Boko Haram, is rapidly gaining ground in Africa, achieving many of the same operational and strategic successes that have made ISIS such a force to be reckoned with, including significant dominion over territory and populations.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 11:45
One year ago the Obama administration broke with the Somalia policy of its three predecessors by according diplomatic recognition to the government of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 13:43
Prepared Statement of Dr. J. Peter Pham, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs