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Introduction
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 21, 2009
Oceans and Seas
The National Interest and the Law of the Sea
Overview The oceans have long been a critical arena for international relations. Before there was air travel and instantaneous communication, people, goods, and ideas traveled the world by ship. F…
June 5, 2008
Syria
Dealing with Damascus
Overview Syria has more often than not represented a problem for U.S. foreign policy. Its unwillingness to make peace with Israel, close ties to Iran, political and military interference in Leb…
November 19, 2014
Nigeria
U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram
Overview The militant Islamist group Boko Haram's increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Chr…
March 1, 2006
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism
Overview A nuclear attack by terrorists against the United States has the potential to make the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, look like a historical footnote. In addition to the imme…
June 2, 2011
International Law
Justice Beyond The Hague
Overview When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established more than twenty years ago, the international community had little experience prosecuting the per…
