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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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May 24, 2012
United States
Egypt’s Historic Elections, Violent Eruptions in Lebanon and Yemen
Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Egyptians went to the polls for a second consecutive day today for the first free presidential elections in Egypt’s history. The turnout was particularly …
April 10, 2024
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Academic Webinar: Global Health Security and Diplomacy
Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at CFR, and Rebecca Katz, professor and director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, lead the conversation o…
June 2, 2006
Palestinian Territories
Asali: Palestinians Support Abbas’ Referendum Plan by Huge Majority
Ziad J. Asali, president and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine, a group dedicated to setting up a state of Palestine alongside that of Israel, says that the call two weeks ago by Palest…
June 19, 2015
Global
The Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance
Lord Jim O’Neill, chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, joins CFR’s Thomas Bollyky to discuss the economic drivers and consequences of antimicrobial resistance and the role of global coope…
June 19, 2007
Iraq
Economic Doldrums in Iraq
Iraq’s failing economy helps feed the cycle of violence there. Beyond restoring security, however, experts disagree over how to resuscitate it.
August 17, 2011
Egypt
Egypt’s Post-Mubarak Political Uncertainty
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has sparked a debate in Egypt about retributive justice versus the rule of law, which will be among the many issues to play out in the fall’s parl…