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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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January 9, 2015
Politics and Government
Sri Lanka’s Victory for Democracy
In a stunning upset today, Sri Lanka’s Maithripala Sirisena defeated ten-year incumbent strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sirisena is a former member of President Rajapaksa’s cabinet who defecte…
July 24, 2014
United States
This Week: Hamas-Israel Fighting Escalates and Iraq’s New President
Significant Developments Gaza-Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry has drafted a new cease-fire proposal which has been presented to Israel and Hamas. Kerry, due to leave Cairo on Friday for Washin…
July 11, 2014
The Sick Math of the Gaza War
Israeli prime minister Netanyahu is clearly reluctant to order a ground incursion into Gaza. This has disappointed some of his critics, who think it’s a sign of lack of courage, or of excessive waver…
May 23, 2014
North Korea
Roberta Cohen: Moving Forward on North Korean Human Rights
Roberta Cohen is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in human rights and humanitarian issues. “Now is the time to act,” the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Huma…
May 22, 2014
International Organizations
Voting Against Accountability for Syria
Coauthored with Claire Schachter, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Today the UN Security Council voted on a French draft resolution referring the s…
