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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 9, 2010
Sanctions
A Weakened but Resourceful Iran
Sanctions have weakened Iran, but expert Hossein G. Askari says the country’s leaders continue to muddle through, in part because of popular support for uranium enrichment--the cause of mounting glob…
January 1, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Confidence-destroying Measures
Working toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, negotiators always seek "confidence-building measures" or CBMs. These moves are supposed to show good faith and convince the other side to under…
November 18, 2020
Education
Ensuring Access to Education for Girls During a Humanitarian Crisis and Conflict
The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest education emergency in history, with consequences that could reverse decades of progress in girl's education. Ensuring continuity of education amid COVID…
December 10, 2006
Financial Markets
Are the world’s oil exporters shifting away from the dollar?
The FT says so, drawing on work that from the Bank of International Settlements.I like a good petrodollar story -- and a good central bank diversification story -- as much as the next guy. A lot mo…
November 29, 2011
Elections and Voting
Egypt's Elections: A Report from Cairo
Egyptians headed to the polls Monday in the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak amid deepening divisions in society and concern about the nation's directi…
