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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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July 12, 2011
Israel
Five Years After the Israel-Hezbollah War
An Israeli artillery unit fires a shell towards Lebanon from its position near the Israeli-Lebanese border August 9, 2006. Israel decided on Wednesday to expand its ground offensive in Leban…
March 15, 2012
Israel
Ugly Israelis?
I rarely write about Israel. It’s important politically, but intellectually for me a bit of a bore. What more can be said about the country that has not already been said, especially the Arab-Israel…
July 19, 2013
Turkey
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Economy, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, and Greening the West Bank
Matt Phillips, writing for Quartz, provides some startling figures about Egypt’s economy following the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. Kadri Gursel examines the Islamization of Turkey’s fo…
January 1, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Confidence-destroying Measures
Working toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, negotiators always seek "confidence-building measures" or CBMs. These moves are supposed to show good faith and convince the other side to under…
July 17, 2015
There Goes the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was an experiment. From the beginning its potential success was threatened, as all United Nations-linked bodies are, by the danger of falling into UN Human Righ…