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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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May 30, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
Going Directly to the Wastebasket: Another Plan for the "Peace Process"
Some "peace processors" never give up. In the New York Times today, four of them try an old and very bad idea: forget about negotiations, and substitute the views of some un-elected elderly "statesme…
September 6, 2011
Economics
Demand Side Policies in the U.S. War on Drugs
Passengers on a bus pass a vehicle painted with a slogan during an anti-drugs campaign to mark International Anti-Drug Day in Jakarta (Dadang Tri/Courtesy Reuters). The “drug war” strategy of the la…
March 1, 2010
Economics
Brazil as an Emerging Power: The View from the United States
The United States has always seen Brazil as a significant regional powerhouse, but its perceived importance has risen in the last decade. Due to Brazil’s economic strength, its hemispheric leadership…
August 31, 2016
Brazil
Political Fault Lines in Post-Rousseff Brazil
After nearly nine months, Brazil’s impeachment drama is over. The process ended on a curiously subdued note: the Senate’s questioning of Dilma Rousseff on Monday was a staid affair, and Tuesday’s spe…
April 1, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
The Global Debate Over Illegal Drugs Heats Up
Having been frozen for four decades, a long-deferred debate over the "war on drugs" is finally heating up. Ever since the Nixon administration, the dominant paradigm informing U.S. and global policy …
