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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 18, 2009
Immigration and Migration
What to Read on Mexican Politics
What are the 6 books you find most useful in thinking about Mexican politics? Foreign Affairs asked me for my list. I’d be interested in yours…
October 18, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, the CIA, and Polls on Syria and Iran
“Drop the Pilot,” Economist, October 19, 2013. A 2009 poll in three of the tribal agencies found 52% of respondents believed drone strikes were accurate and 60% said they weakened militant groups. O…
September 18, 2018
United States
Happy 71st Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!
The United States Air Force marks seventy-one years of service.
September 9, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Review of “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia” by Ben Bland
Thomas Pepinsky is Tisch University Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, most recently, of …
September 18, 2016
China
China Can Now Organize Its Own (Financial) Coalitions of the Willing
Just before the global financial crisis, I wrote a paper on the geostrategic implications of the United States’ growing external debt—and specifically about the fact that the U.S.’s main external cre…