Daniel Runde

Daniel Runde is a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he also holds the William A. Schreyer chair in global analysis, a former USAID official in the George W. Bush administration, and a former foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

Articles by Daniel Runde

A specialist inside a COVID-19 mobile unit set up by the Peruvian Ministry of Health at the Hipolito Unanue Hospital in Lima on Feb. 27, 2020.

A Fight Over a Trump Official Could Block Aid to Latin America

Shadow Government

February 12, 2021, 1:20 PM

Vice President George H.W. Bush at a press conference on April 7, 1983 in Helsinski. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

History Will Remember George H.W. Bush Kindly

Elephants in the Room

William Tobey, Kori Schake, Phil Levy, Peter D. Feaver, Daniel Runde, Will Inboden

December 2, 2018, 9:50 PM

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (R) and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Workeneh Gebeyehu prepare to welcome an Eritrean delegation at the international airport in Addis Ababa on June 26, 2018.

Trump Needs to Close the Deal in the Horn of Africa

Elephants in the Room

July 12, 2018, 5:48 PM

A voter casts her ballot in the referendum to end the guerrilla war between the FARC and the Colombian government in Bogotá on Oct. 2, 2016. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Here’s How the United States Can Help Colombia Thrive

Elephants in the Room

April 13, 2018, 5:40 PM

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference at the White House on May 18, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Colombia Is Ready to Join the Club

Elephants in the Room

April 3, 2018, 2:45 PM

The World Bank headquarters in Washington on May 8, 2007. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators Still Work

Elephants in the Room

February 23, 2018, 3:39 PM

Four Grotesque Male Heads. (Wenzel Hollar/Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University)

Are Americans as ‘Ugly’ as Ever?

Elephants in the Room

February 1, 2018, 11:51 AM

U.S. Marines assigned to Joint Task Force - Leeward Islands stack boxes of tarps from the U.S. Agency for International Development as they prepare supplies for distribution at Douglas-Charles Airport in Melville Hall, Dominica, Sept 29. (Sgt. Melissa Martens/U.S. Marines via Getty Images)

Let USAID Run USAID

Elephants in the Room

December 19, 2017, 4:52 PM

People take part in a rally supporting Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in Tegucigalpa on Nov. 5. (Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)

The United States Has a Lot Riding on the Honduras Election

Elephants in the Room

November 14, 2017, 10:35 AM

Anti-separatist Catalans at a protest in Barcelona on Spain's National Day in 2012. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

Catalonia Leaving Spain Would Be Like Illinois Leaving the United States

Elephants in the Room

October 12, 2017, 12:33 PM

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 05: Condoleezza Rice visits "FOX And Friends" at FOX Studios on November 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Condoleezza Rice’s Book on Democracy Could Not Have Come at a Better Time

Elephants in the Room

August 22, 2017, 2:22 PM

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 31: USAID blankets being distributed by Mercy Corps are about to be loaded onto trucks at Chaklala airport October 31,2005 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad surrounded by relief goods waiting to be distributed. The current death toll is now believed to be over 55,000 from the South Asian earthquake that happened over 3 weeks ago. Over 3 million people are still without proper shelter and aid organizations including the U.N are warning that thousands could die in remote mountainous regions as Winter approaches. Atleast 1,400 died in Indian-Kashmir.
(photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) — ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 31: USAID blankets being distributed by Mercy Corps are about to be loaded onto trucks at Chaklala airport October 31,2005 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad surrounded by relief goods waiting to be distributed. The current death toll is now believed to be over 55,000 from the South Asian earthquake that happened over 3 weeks ago. Over 3 million people are still without proper shelter and aid organizations including the U.N are warning that thousands could die in remote mountainous regions as Winter approaches. Atleast 1,400 died in Indian-Kashmir. (photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

Trump Should Fix Foreign Aid, But Not at the Expense of U.S. Interests

Elephants in the Room

July 24, 2017, 3:40 PM

A general view shows a Sudanes worker sitting on the USA flagged bulk carrier, Liberty Glory, docked in Port Sudan on October 17, 2016 as the World Food Programme delivers US aid.
/ AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) — A general view shows a Sudanes worker sitting on the USA flagged bulk carrier, Liberty Glory, docked in Port Sudan on October 17, 2016 as the World Food Programme delivers US aid. / AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)

Foreign Aid Is About U.S. Interests

Elephants in the Room

June 26, 2017, 5:47 PM

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 12: Mark Green, former United States Ambassador to Tanzania, arrives at Trump Tower, January 12, 2017 in New York City. President-elect Trump continues to hold meetings Trump Tower. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Confirm Mark Green as USAID Administrator

Elephants in the Room

May 12, 2017, 4:48 PM

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Review: ‘Looking Back Without Anger,’ by Javier Rupérez

Elephants in the Room

April 6, 2017, 7:07 PM

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