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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 30, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Syria Intervention, WMDs, the "Black Budget”
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary,” Washington Post, August 29, 2013. The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fis…
August 15, 2013
What’s New in U.S.-Israel Plans for Iran’s Nuclear Program?
Two days ago, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, met with his Israeli counterpart, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, chief of the Israeli general staff. Last August, Gen. Dempsey told re…
April 6, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Conflict Prevention, Cyber War, and Conspiracy Theories
Claudette Roulo, "Dempsey Arrives in Afghanistan to Assess Progress," American Forces Press Service, April 6, 2013. “Any conflict in history, when it is resolved, is resolved through some form of re…
October 16, 2012
Corporate Governance
Tackling the Real Barriers to U.S. Business Abroad
The U.S.-China Business Council’s just-released survey on the environment for U.S. companies doing business in China is far more striking for what it doesn’t say than what it does. Of the top ten pro…
July 19, 2012
Wars and Conflict
The Complex Ties Among Poverty, Development, and Security
Over the past decade a new conventional wisdom has emerged that security and development are mutually reinforcing, and that long-term security is not possible without reducing poverty and promoting e…
