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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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July 18, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Question of the Week: China in Africa Part II
Is Chinese aid and investment a positive force for development in Africa? This is the second Question of the Week post about Chinese involvement in Africa. Last week, we focused on China’s South-Sou…
February 10, 2014
International Organizations
Tracking Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
This blog post was coauthored with my research associate, Amelia M. Wolf. Since the Afghanistan war began twelve years and four months ago, the fate of innocent civilians has been a constant focus o…
April 22, 2015
Cuba
Gov. Cuomo Visits Cuba, and What Could Be Wrong with That?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, right, talks with Cuba’s Josefina Vidal, director general of the U.S. division at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, left, and Gustavo Machin, Cuba’s deputy chief of North Ameri…
October 3, 2015
Afghanistan
Kunduz Airstrike and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
This blog post updated an earlier post, and was again coauthored with my research associate, Amelia M. Wolf. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that its hospital in Kun…
November 15, 2011
Defense and Security
Human Rights Abuses in Mexico’s Drug War
Photographs of missing people are on display at a square in Queretaro (Courtesy Reuters). Last Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its report “Neither Rights Nor Security: Killings, Torture…
