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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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October 24, 2014
China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of October 24, 2014
Ashlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Andrew Hill, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. North Korea releases U.S. prisoner. On Tuesday, Pyongyang releas…
December 18, 2020
Transition 2021
Transition 2021: How Much Foreign Policy Leverage Is Trump Leaving Biden?
Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: The Biden administration may have less leverage to strike winning deals than he, and …
February 19, 2014
United States
Kerry and the Diplomatic Dead End With North Korea
Secretary of State John Kerry’s first visit to Northeast Asia last April was consumed with near-term crisis management since it coincided with the peak of regional tensions driven by North Korea’s pr…
August 9, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes in Yemen, AQAP, Kissinger on Africa
Maria Abi-Habib, Margaret Coker, and Siobhan Gorman, Yemen Steps Back From Terror-Plot Claims, Highlighting U.S.’s Challenge, The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2013. Estimates vary about the number…
December 29, 2014
Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
