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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 24, 2010
Defense and Security
Welcome Move on Mexico's Drug Wars
On their high octane visit to Mexico City yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior administration officials formally announced changes in U.S.-Mexico security cooperation that had bee…
October 25, 2010
China
A New Threshold for Japan’s Diplomacy
I have just returned from a week in Tokyo, where I attended the annual CSIS-Nikkei conference on U.S.-Japan relations. As I noted in our CFR.org roundup on how Washington should respond to Beijing’s …
August 22, 2011
Summer’s End
I am away on vacation at an undisclosed location. Below please find a list of what I am reading while I am away, though I am open to suggestions. There is a very good bookstore in a nearby town. …
June 29, 2016
United States
Brexit, Experts, and Trump: Is Policy Expertise Still Relevant in a Populist Age?
Among the main casualties of the populist wave now surging through Western democracies is respect for policy expertise. Michael Gove, justice secretary in the UK government and cheerleader for Brexit…
February 13, 2017
Japan
"Behind Japan, 100%"
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could not have wished for a better outcome from his summit meeting with President Donald Trump. To be sure, there were some awkward moments—like the Lost in Translation-like…
