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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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April 21, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Gary Johnson, GOP Presidential Candidate
A worker sits on a pile of presidential campaign T-shirts for former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson at the Conservative Political Action conference in Washington on February 10, 2011. (Kevin Lamarq…
February 23, 2015
Turkey
Sultanism or Not? Debating Turkish Politics
Erik Tillman from DePaul University responded to my recent piece on Politico.com. It is well worth a read. Recent events have spawned a number of articles analyzing Turkey’s current political situat…
September 6, 2005
Capital Flows
Is Iraq an economic success? (What is Patrick Clawson thinking?)
I think it is fair to say that I see the world - and Iraq's economy -- very differently than Patrick Clawson. Clawson argues in the New Republic that Iraq currently is financing most of its own reco…
November 1, 2013
Intelligence
You Might Have Missed: Drones, al-Shabaab in Somalia, and the NSA.
Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “As Security Deteriorates at Home, Iraqi Leader Arrived in U.S. Seeking Aid,” New York Times, October 31, 2013. Until now, Mr. Maliki was reluctant to openly ask …
November 1, 2012
Climate Change
How Likely Was Hurricane Sandy?
As the public debate over Hurricane Sandy turns in part from the immediate impacts of the storm to its possible links to climate change, a new theme is emerging: Sandy is not just part of a new norma…
