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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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July 12, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria’s Defections and Diplomacy, Egypt’s Power Struggles
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. UN Security Council members today began discussing a draft resolution on Syria in New York. Russia and the Western nations on the 15-member council have d…
May 18, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Yemen and Drone Wars
Iona Craig, "Toll Climbs in Yemen’s Fight Against al-Qaeda," USA Today, May 18, 2012. Julian E. Barnes, "U.S. Rethinks Secrecy on Drone Program," Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2012. The policy chang…
August 9, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes in Yemen, AQAP, Kissinger on Africa
Maria Abi-Habib, Margaret Coker, and Siobhan Gorman, Yemen Steps Back From Terror-Plot Claims, Highlighting U.S.’s Challenge, The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2013. Estimates vary about the number…
September 7, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killings, and National Security Threats
“Interview with President Obama,” Fox 19, September 6, 2012. Q: Well let me ask then also about the so-called presidential kill list that has gotten a lot of attention…and on that list have been U.S…
April 8, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Weekly Foreign Policy Roundup: Bernie Sanders Raises Questions About His Grasp of Foreign Policy
Last week it was Donald Trump. This week it is Bernie Sanders who has people questioning his command of foreign policy issues. Speaking with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, the Ver…
