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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 7, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Israel: BDS in the West, Integration in the Middle East?
Efforts continue in Europe and the United States to boycott Israel or at least Israeli goods "tainted" by their production in settlements in the West Bank, and to disinvest in Israeli companies or in…
February 11, 2015
Guatemala
Glimpses of Optimism in Guatemala
The news and statistics from Guatemala are anything but reassuring. More than half the nation’s sixteen million citizens live in poverty. Worse, almost one in two children under five suffer from chro…
December 29, 2020
2020 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2020
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
December 17, 2012
Israel
Hamas and Fatah: Does Familiarity Breed Non-Support?
Palestinians have joked for years that West Bankers living under Fatah oppose Fatah, while those living in Gaza under Hamas rule oppose Hamas. Familiarity breeds contempt, it seems, or at least suppr…
December 5, 2014
Israel
Weekend Reading: Syrian Deals, Tunisia’s Libya, and Israeli Elections
Yezid Sayegh, in an interview with Syria Deeply, argues that a deteriorating situation in Syria may incentivize some rebels to strike a deal with the Assad regime. Ismail Dbara looks at how Tunisia …
