I try to send updates to family and friends at least twice a year covering the ongoing conflict and progress in building Parami University.

Here are my notes for the online 8-week course I taught in 2021 for students in Myanmar. A Parami University continuing education project.

Before deciding on a migration policy, the USA should have a policy aimed at stabilizing our policy around the 330 million level.

The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many countries to the edge of default. Workouts will use Paris Club rules, but China is not a member.

The Peace Corps sent me to India in 1965 to introduce modern poultry keeping. Here’s a short account of my unimpressive accomplishments.

In my February 2021 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I wrote that China’s falling birth rate is a positive, not negative, trend.

Remarks for a youth forum in January 2021 via Zoom.

The Covid19 pandemic forced the evacuation of all Peace Corps volunteers overseas. And prompted thoughts on the future of the Peace Corps.

I co-authored an essay, published by East Asia Forum in May 2020, on how to make Indonesia’s project to build a new capital successful.

In a December 2019 blog post for Brookings, three months before the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote about the coexistence of peace and war.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Alex Arifianto, we called the upcoming election a “statistical dead heat”.

In a December 2018 blog post for Brookings, I predicted that the UN’s new Global Compact on Migration will fail due to political resistance.

In a June 2018 blog post for Brookings, I wrote that “deinstitutionalization” is leading to lives that will be nasty, brutish, and short.

This Brookings blog post sketched out my rationale for a new policy research project on the global challenge of urban youth unemployment.

In a January 2018 blog post for Brookings, I noted how strong the economy is despite the ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya.

In a November 2017 blog post for Brookings, returning from a visit to Myanmar, I wrote about US policy in reaction to the Rohingya crisis.

In a Brookings podcast in September 2017, I was interviewed about the merciless ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya in August.

In a September 2017 blog post for Brookings, I tried to explain the complex origins of the Rohingya crisis in a Q and A format.

In an August 2017 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I wrote that it’s wrong to blame Aung San Suu Kyi for the Rohingya crisis.

In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.