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Introduction
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…
March 18, 2003
IraqFormer Marine Corps General Trainor says he’s “not quite comfortable” with the size and makeup of the U.S. forces based in Kuwait, asserting that the military has been slow to send in…
May 28, 2004
ChinaNicholas D. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl Wudunn, were Beijing-based correspondents for The New York Times when, on June 3-4, 1989, Chinese authorities brutally cracked down on pro-democracy demonstra…
March 6, 2007
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and DisarmamentDon Oberdorfer, a leading Korea expert, says “important progress” has been made toward normalization of U.S.-North Korea relations.
June 8, 2009
LebanonFollowing the Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, CFR’s Mohamad Bazzi says a crucial question for the new government is whether it can operate without allowing Hezbollah and its allies to retain their…
September 1, 2009
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and DisarmamentGeorge Perkovich, an expert on nuclear policy, says despite the world’s revulsion at the apparently staged elections in Iran, the United States should be prepared to talk to the Iranian government.