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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 23, 2022
Hong Kong
China’s Crackdown on a Free Hong Kong
After the British government handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, Beijing promised to let the city keep its capitalist economy and some of its democratic freedoms under the “one country, two syste…
October 13, 2011
United States
Free Trade Agreements Signal Bipartisan Cooperation
The U.S. ratification of the stalled Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama indicates that "there is a possibility, despite the very great partisan divisions in Congress, of bip…
April 6, 2023
Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement Threatened by Brexit Fallout
In Northern Ireland, the consequences of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, known as Brexit, are threatening to unravel the twenty-five-year-old Good Friday Agreement. It’s a pea…
September 23, 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa
What’s Behind Africa’s Democratic Downturn?
Only eight out of nearly fifty sub-Saharan countries are considered free. Here’s why democracy is declining across the region.
June 7, 2012
Iran
IAEA-Iran Talks: Three Things to Know
The talks between Iranian and IAEA officials will focus on potential inspections at the Parchin military base, and the outcome will influence upcoming P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran in Moscow, says CFR…