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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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March 12, 2024
Haiti
Haiti Mission Lacks Interlocutor Plus Peruvian Congress Purges Top Judges
No interlocutor for Haiti mission’s international troops and Peru’s “pact of the corrupt” is succeeding where Guatemala’s failed without international pressure.
October 13, 2020
International Organizations
Nigerian (and American) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finalist for WTO Director General
The two finalists for the position of director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are Yoo Myung-hee, Republic of Korea, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian and (since 2019) an American citizen.
May 13, 2019
Global Governance
How the Paris Agreement Model Could Help Ward Off the Next Mass Extinction
Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. A bankrupt biosphere, however, is not yet destiny. To reverse course, nations must take a page from the Paris Agreement on climate …
October 2, 2014
United States
Voices From the UN General Assembly
International efforts to combat ISIS dominated the recent debate in New York when world leaders converged for the UN General Assembly’s sixty-ninth session. Middle East Matters has excerpted passages…
December 13, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
What’s General Sisi So Scared Of?
This morning’s New York Times reveals the paranoia and vulnerability of the current Egyptian regime. Michele Dunne, a former career diplomat who served in Cairo and also at the National Security Cou…