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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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April 14, 2016
Conflict Prevention
Guest Post: Preventing Another Russia-Georgia Confrontation
Shahin Badkoubei is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The next twelve to eighteen months will be a critical test of already tense and tenuous relati…
August 4, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Voices From Syria
"Ramadan used to be a time for me to read the Quran, pray and help people with charity but now we are fighting just to get bread, food and enough money to live ourselves," –Abu Marwan, a 50-year-old …
June 3, 2011
Weekend Reading
A butcher chops meat in his store in a souk in Fez (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters) Emad Gad on Ahram Online - How to Author a Constitution Michael Young in The Daily Star – The Void in Beirut…
February 11, 2019
Germany
The Case for a Significant German Stimulus Is Now Overwhelming
Germany’s economy is slowing by more than can easily be explained by the obvious slowdown in exports (see Gavyn Davies, who, to be fair, believes there were some one-off drags to German growth in h2 …
February 10, 2012
United States
Weekend Reading: The Syrian Dilemma, America’s Democracy Push in Egypt, and Questions on Egypt’s New Parliament
Alexey Pilko writes on Eurasia Review about the dilemma of Syria. Emad Mekay says, on the San Francisco Chronicle the U.S. shouldn’t support Egypt’s democracy backers. Tamer Wagih wonders, is Egypt…
