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Paul J. Angelo provides the first headlining case studies of Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative. -
Global Climate Agreements: Successes and FailuresInternational efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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Climate, Conflict, and COP28: The Burden on Unstable RegionsIn Dubai, leaders should focus their attention on policy solutions for vulnerable regions where climate change is amplifying the consequences of armed conflict and compounding failures of governance.
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Russia Must Be Held Accountable for Alleged Criminal Aggression in Ukraine: Two Paths to JusticeThe authors, including a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the inaugural U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, urge the imperative of prosecuting alleged Russian crimes of aggression in Ukraine, and present two practical options for doing so.
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The Anti-Globalization Backlash, With Peter TrubowitzPeter Trubowitz, a professor of international relations and director of the Phelan U.S. Center at the London School of Economics and an associate fellow at Chatham House, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the reasons for the rise of anti-globalism in Western countries and its consequences for world order.
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The APEC Summit, With Matthew GoodmanMatthew Goodman, a distinguished fellow for global economic policy and director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2023 forum in San Francisco, California.
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Virtual Media Briefing: International Law and the Humanitarian Crisis in GazaThe Council on Foreign Relations hosts experts to discuss recent developments on the humanitarian crisis and to analyze the laws of war and human rights in Gaza.
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Zimbabwe’s Electoral AftermathWhile Zimbabwe’s ruling party continues its campaign to quash opposition forces post-election, the Southern African Development Community takes a “business as usual” approach.
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Catastrophic Displacement in the Democratic Republic of CongoThe latest revelations about the scale of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s crisis deserve attention.
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What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?The United Nation’s ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.
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What Does the Inter-American Development Bank Do?The Inter-American Development Bank aims to bolster economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, but critics say reforms are needed.
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The Laws of War, With Matthew WaxmanMatthew Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at CFR and the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the laws of warfare and how they apply to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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Global View of U.S.-China RelationsCurrent ambassadors of Australia, France, and Singapore to the United States, who all have worked in or with Beijing in previous positions, discuss the global view on the U.S.-China relationship, and how it affects the rest of the world.
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What Is the Iran Nuclear Deal?Diplomacy to revive this arms control agreement has faced multiple stumbling blocks, including Iran’s nuclear advances and its links to conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.
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Prized Panda Diplomats Return to BeijingThe National Zoo’s giant pandas will return to China by mid-November.