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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 16, 1998
International Law
Allan Gerson Named Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law
New York City, August 17, 1998: Allan Gerson, a noted international law expert, has been named as Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations, Council P…
April 21, 2008
Elections and Voting
Gyngell: East Asia Worries about 2008 Democrats’ Trade Rhetoric
Allan Gyngell, a former Australian diplomat, says there is concern in Australia and East Asia that the next U.S. president might retreat from the United States’ support for free trade.
February 17, 2009
Venezuela
Referendum in Venezuela Hardens Chavez’s ’Authoritarian Regime’
Allan Brewer-Carias, a former Venezuelan legislator and opponent of President Hugo Chavez, says the referendum that overturned term limits on Chavez will strengthen the country’s authoritarian strain…
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Cuban Missile Crisis)
One of the first decisions that President John F. Kennedy made when he learned of the Soviet missiles in Cuba was to assemble a small group of senior administration officials to give him advice. That…
January 14, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Some Good News From South Africa
It is unduly gloomy in sunny South Africa. The national currency, the rand, is falling; the economy is hardly growing at all; the Zuma administration appears mired in corruption and mismanagement. Th…
