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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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August 20, 2021
Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat
Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war.
February 3, 2012
Politics and Government
Friday File: Is a U.S. Military Strike on Iran Nearing?
Above the Fold. The rhetoric on Iran certainly heated up this week. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta noted ominously on Sunday “if we have to do it, we will do it” when asked what the United States …
October 21, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: The Super Committee Has Thirty-Three Days
A pigeon sits on a clock in Frankfurt. (Alex Domanski/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The super committee now has a bit more than a month to strike a long-term deficit reduction deal. I’m skeptica…
January 22, 2021
Southeast Asia
A Review of “How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions”
Charles Dunst is a visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Washington, an associate at LSE IDEAS, and a contributing editor of American Purpose. In January 2017 at Davos, the small alpine town…
December 9, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Restrained South African Reaction to the Murder of Pierre Korkie
Pierre Korkie was a South African teacher working in Yemen, where his wife, Yolande, did hospital relief work. They were kidnapped by al-Qaeda operatives in May 2013. Yolande Korkie was released with…
