Bala Selvam
The Sahel: America's Most Difficult Diplomatic Frontier
West Africa: Anchor Economies and the Coup Belt Challenge
West Africa's strategic logic starts with two countries: Nigeria and Ghana. Get those relationships right, and you have a foundation for everything else.
East Africa: Silicon Savannah, Security Hotspots, and U.S. Priorities
Kenya has been a cornerstone U.S. partner for six decades; a democratic anchor in a turbulent neighborhood, a regional financial hub, and home to Silicon Savannah, a tech ecosystem that has produced fintech giants, agritech startups, and a generation of engineers
Why Africa Is America's Next Great Strategic Opportunity
And yet the U.S. has spent years treating Africa primarily as a humanitarian challenge; a region defined by its crises rather than its extraordinary potential. That framing is not just outdated. It is strategically costly. China became Africa's largest trading partner in 2009
Supply Chains of the Free World: Building a Secure Pan-American Network
