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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…
February 25, 2013
Middle East and North AfricaThere must be something in the water over at the State Department that leads successive secretaries of state to decide, seemingly on their first day there, that now is the time for a big new push at …
February 9, 2016
Middle East and North AfricaThe Under Secretary of State for "Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights," Sarah Sewall, is today in Egypt. She might as well have stayed home. Because today, Secretary of State Kerry did a…
August 6, 2015
CubaSecretary of State Kerry will visit Cuba soon--on August 14. Since the opening of diplomatic relations and of the Cuban embassy in Washington, what’s been going on in Cuba? More repression. There w…
November 29, 2017
U.S. Foreign PolicyIt seems that John Kerry is a problem even out of office. Whether his record as secretary of state was one of glorious achievement or abject failure is of course a matter of debate; I lean to the lat…
May 12, 2016
IranThe Wall Street Journal has a remarkable story this week, entitled as follows:"Kerry Tries to Drum Up Some Business in Europe for Iran." Mr. Kerry, traveling in Europe, was urging European firms t…