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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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January 21, 2004
United States
Haass: State of Union Address Stressed U.S. Desire To Avoid Confrontation With North Korea and Iran
Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former senior State Department official, says that he was struck by the emphasis on multilateralism in foreign policy in Pres…
July 26, 2017
Venezuela
Can Venezuela Resurrect Its Economy?
President Nicolas Maduro has neither the desire nor the capacity to institute the market reforms and debt restructuring needed to revive Venezuela’s sinking economy, says economist Ricardo Hausmann.
December 28, 2009
Iran
Understanding Iran’s Protest Movement
Veteran journalist Robin Wright, who covered the 1979 Iranian Revolution, says Iran’s disparate but resilient protest coalition is motivated by a desire to reform the country’s governing system.
July 5, 2006
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Levi: North Korea Seeks World Attention with Missile Tests
Michael A. Levi, a CFR expert on weapons technology, says North Korea’s missile tests were an effort not only to test these missiles, but to gain a measure of world attention, particularly from the U…
January 16, 2007
Conflict Prevention
Cook: Israeli-Palestinian Talks Linked to Iraqi Problem
Steven A. Cook, a leading Middle East expert, says the current U.S. effort to make progress in the Israeli-Palestinian talks is inevitably linked to the U.S. desire to get Arab support for the shaky …