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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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June 19, 2015
China
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Climate Finance, Aid, Anti-Corruption Tech, and the ICC
This is the fourth post of a new series on the Development Channel, "This Week in Markets and Democracy." Each Friday, CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program, will highlight the week’s n…
September 24, 2015
United States
Syria: Let Putin Bleed
Early September brought the news that the Russians were deploying military forces to Bassel al-Assad International Airport near Latakia on the Syrian coast. The Aviationist website recently reproduce…
September 29, 2011
China
Missing Opportunities in U.S.-China Relations
A screenshot taken from C-SPAN's recording of the Washington Post Live's Global China Summit on September 27, 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy C-SPAN) This past Tuesday, the Washington Post hosted…
July 21, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
What Famines?
A poll conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) shows that only about 15 percent of Americans are aware of the famines in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Known as the “four fam…
April 4, 2010
Europe and Eurasia
Kyoto and Zombies
It’s apparently fashionable these days to bring zombie metaphors into international relations. So who am I to resist? Besides, when it comes to the Kyoto Protocol, it’s pretty apt, as some news out o…