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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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May 9, 2012
United States
A Primer on Military Force
As I’ve written previously, policymakers and pundits have some pretty silly proposals for the use of military force. Whether it’s President Clinton,“[It would] scare the shit out of al Qaeda if sudde…
March 13, 2006
International Organizations
Lowenkron: Number of Countries Fear a Tougher UN Human Rights Body
The State Department official in charge of addressing human rights issues, Assistant Secretary Barry Lowenkron, tells cfr.org a number of states fear the proposed UN Human Rights Council, which will …
January 8, 2003
United States
Task Force Urges State Dept Reform, Bipartisan Group Led by Carlucci Lays Out Action Plan
January 29, 2001, Washington, D.C. - A report by a high-level, independent task force finds the Department of State to be "in a serious state of disrepair" and suffering from "long-term mismanagement…
March 31, 2022
Economics
Russia’s War Is the End of Magical Thinking
In her co-authored 2018 book Political Risk, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells the story of an hourlong negotiation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. For what were clearly pr…
March 13, 2008
Wars and Conflict
Iraq: Five Years of War
Watch Barry McCaffrey, a retired U.S. army general and adjunct professor of international affairs at West Point, discuss past failings and future options for success in Iraq five years after the war …
