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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…
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January 1, 2013
Wars and Conflict
Invisible Armies
A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
May 3, 2005
Iraq
Losing Iraq
A disenchanted government insider’s take on the planning that did go on for postwar Iraq that the Bush administration willfully ignored. According to conventional wisdom, Iraq has suffered because…
December 1, 2001
Political History and Theory
Special Providence
The United States has had a more successful foreign policy than any other great power in history. Council Senior Fellow Walter Russell Mead argues that the United States is successful because its strategy is rooted in Americans' concrete interests, which value trade and commerce as much as military security.
April 1, 2001
Climate Change
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Most politicians, policy-makers, and analysts hailed the Kyoto Protocol as a vital first step toward slowing greenhouse warming. Council Senior Fellow David Victor was not among them. In this clear a…
September 1, 2001
Political History and Theory
The Real and the Ideal
Idealism and the pursuit of power are more closely linked than the liberal or realist traditions would have us believe. Foreign policy should be built on the principles of decency, mutual respect for…