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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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October 21, 2014
Human Rights
The Future of Human Dignity—and Human Rights
For decades the global debate over human rights has been a dialogue of the deaf. This interminable argument pits advocates of civil and political rights against proponents of economic and social righ…
August 2, 2016
International Organizations
Help Wanted: Staffing the Next Secretary-General’s United Nations
The following is a guest post by Megan Roberts, associate director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. This week the UN Security Coun…
April 25, 2007
Economics
Five observations: all loosely tied to yen and dollar weakness and the swelling coffers of the emerging world
One. Yes, Virginia, exchange rates do matter … Japan’s trade surplus is rising. Its current account surplus should be rising even more, as its interest income should be increasing too. The MoF is …
April 15, 2015
United States
Is Operation Desert Fox a Useful Comparison for Bombing Iran?
In an interview with the Family Research Council last week, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) described what U.S. military action against Iran’s nuclear-related facilities would entail: The president is try…
April 6, 2012
Rwanda
TWE Remembers: Juvenal Habyarimana’s Plane Crashes and the Rwandan Genocide Begins
Planes crashes have killed a regrettable number of world leaders. Legendary UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld died in 1960 in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in mysterious circumstances while on …
