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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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July 12, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria’s Defections and Diplomacy, Egypt’s Power Struggles
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. UN Security Council members today began discussing a draft resolution on Syria in New York. Russia and the Western nations on the 15-member council have d…
April 8, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Weekly Foreign Policy Roundup: Bernie Sanders Raises Questions About His Grasp of Foreign Policy
Last week it was Donald Trump. This week it is Bernie Sanders who has people questioning his command of foreign policy issues. Speaking with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, the Ver…
April 22, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Trump to Give a Major Foreign Policy Address
Foreign policy didn’t make much news on the campaign trail this week. That’s about to change. Next Wednesday, Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his first foreign policy address. The setting is a l…
September 28, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Iran, Red Lines, Drones, and Dieting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "I believe that, faced with a clear red line, Iran will back down.” (September 27, 2012) Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, “I think that this whole matter of r…
August 18, 2015
Asia
The Implications of Thura Shwe Mann’s Removal
Last week, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) party leader Thura Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, was abruptly removed as party chief, only months before Myanmar’s …
