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• Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • October 2, 2017
  Tunisia Passes Controversial Law, Undermining Democratic Transition

  Tunisia’s parliament recently passed a controversial law effectively granting amnesty to public officials involved in corruption under the Bourguiba and Ben Ali dictatorships ...

  By Kate Bateman

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • June 5, 2017
  Wanted: A Trump Team Foreign-Policy Plan with Democratic Values

  National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn offered a defense of President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy in a W...

  By Kate Bateman

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • June 5, 2017
  America must continue the fight against kleptocracy around the globe

  Massive protests in Venezuela, Tunisia, Brazil, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic over the last few weeks have highlighted political graft around the globe, and the ensuing ...

  By Kate Bateman

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • April 14, 2017
  Isolationist who? Americans are more globalist than you might think.

  It is old news that, as a candidate, President Trump’s foreign policy rhetoric departed sharply — dangerously, many would say — from decades-old precepts about the role of the...

  By Kate Bateman

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • February 7, 2017
  Corrupt Practice

  Last week, along largely partisan lines, Congress voted to repeal a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose the payments t...

  By Kate Bateman