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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 10, 2011
Politics and Government
The Egyptian Armed Forces: Guns & Roses
Army soldiers walk past people shouting anti-constitutional amendment slogans during a protest in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters) The violence during the wee hours of Saturday morning in Tahrir S…
November 28, 2011
Egypt
Preliminary Assessment: Egyptians Defy the Odds
A man shows his ink stained finger after casting his vote at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Cairo November 28, 2011 (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters). I am planning a longer…
March 8, 2017
Development
International Women’s Day
This post is co-authored by Anne Connell, assistant director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Wednesday, March 8 marks International Women’s Day, an int…
May 13, 2011
The Resignation of George Mitchell
U.S. Mideast Envoy George Mitchell in Cairo December 15, 2010. (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters) George Mitchell resigned today as the president’s special envoy for the Middle East. Mitchell was appointe…
March 7, 2013
United States
Egypt: The High Art of Being Feckless
I felt sorry for Secretary of State John Kerry when he flew into Cairo on March 2. I am sure his briefers and the U.S. embassy staff did everything they could to prepare him for the visit as best as…
