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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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March 25, 2015
United States
Wall Street in Crisis
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch, and worries about the fate of AIG and other financial institutions have thrown the world markets into disarray, and raised serious questi…
September 17, 2010
Climate Change
The UN Doesn’t Understand Climate Change
A set of background papers (PDF) written for a high-level UN off-site in August was posted last week by Fox News (hat tip: Colum Lynch). Among them is one (prepared by the Climate Change Support Team…
March 16, 2017
International Organizations
Trump’s Misguided National Security Budget: Every Problem is Not a Nail
President Trump’s unapologetic “hard power” budget reveals an alarming ignorance about the threats to U.S. national security and the instruments needed to advance U.S. global interests. The document …
February 16, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Iran’s Nuclear Program and Syria’s Civil War
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the UN inspectors visiting Iran for a second time; the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunis; and the convening of G20 foreign ministers i…
August 18, 2020
Conflict Prevention
Peace, Conflict, and COVID-19
The Center for Preventive Action has created this resource for those seeking information and analysis about the effects of COVID-19 on peace and conflict.
