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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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June 18, 2014
More Books to Read This Summer
Last week, Bob McMahon, Gideon Rose, and I offered up our summer reading suggestions on The World Next Week podcast. India Adams and her colleagues on the CFR Library staff were not to be outdone. Th…
December 18, 2015
China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of December 18, 2015
Ashlyn Anderson, Rachel Brown, Ariella Rotenberg, Ayumi Teraoka, Gabriel Walker, and James West look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Canadian pastor sentenced by North Korea to life in priso…
July 2, 2020
Southeast Asia
Will COVID-19 Make This Year’s Election Different for Singapore’s Ruling Party?
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong declared in a televised address last week that Singapore would hold its next general election on July 10. Lee and other members of the long-ruling People’s Action Party…
April 11, 2014
United States
Voices From the Region: Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Algeria, and Lebanon
“They call it aid, but I don’t consider it aid…I consider it buying time and giving people the illusion that there is aid when really there is not.” –Brigadier General Asaad al-Zoabi, a Syrian fighte…
May 10, 2018
Southeast Asia
Can Mahathir Mohamad be Malaysia’s First Democratically Elected Prime Minister?
By Thomas Pepinsky On May 9, Malaysian voters delivered a stunning defeat to the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN, “National Front”) regime. Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has been ruled by a …
