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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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April 24, 2020
COVID-19
The States and Reopening Under COVID-19: Why We Need North American Cooperation
This post is coauthored by Laurie Trautman, the director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and Edward Alden, …
September 24, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Is the International Response to Ebola Enough?
The Centers for Disease Control has modeled the possible spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (It did not address Ebola in Guinea.) Based on its computer models, it concludes that the range o…
March 20, 2012
Defense and Security
Lessons Learned: Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack
Technological advances increasingly mean that governments are no longer the only ones capable of inflicting mass destruction.
August 16, 2016
G20 (Group of Twenty)
G20, Global Health, and China
New Yorkers who have been used to the annual UNGA sessions (which typically last two weeks and attract over one hundred heads of state and government) in September will probably have difficulty under…
December 21, 2011
Guest Post: Laurie Garrett on Man-Made Deadly Flu
Health workers pack dead chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 21, 2011. Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a de…
