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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 6, 2012
Middle East Matters This Week: Bombs, More Bombs, and Peace Talks
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. At least twenty-five people were killed, and dozens more injured, by a bomb attack in Damascus today. It was the second bombing to take place in Syria’s c…
January 27, 2012
Elections and Voting
Friday File: Will Foreign Policy Matter Much in Campaign 2012?
Above the Fold. A dinner obligation kept me from watching last night’s GOP presidential debate in Jacksonville, Florida, breaking my streak of eighteen straight debate viewings. From what I can tell …
April 8, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Who Will Succeed Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen enter the auditorium before Oabma's speech about the conflict in Libya at the National Defense University on March 28, 2011. (Larry Down…
November 17, 2005
China
Can the Pentagon balance Chinese power …
with money the Treasury borrows from China? Ok, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia ... The answer so far has been yes. The Pentagon - or at least influential voices in the Pentagon - want to discoura…
August 12, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: The GOP Debate Meets Budget Math
Winthrop, Iowa. (Jessica Rinaldi/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Foreign policy took a back seat to Obama bashing and internal GOP sniping in last night’s Republican presidential debate. Rick Sant…
