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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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December 26, 2012
United States
America’s Failing Drone War in Yemen
In February, Eric Schmitt wrote in the New York Times about the Obama administration’s emerging Yemen strategy, whereby U.S. and Yemeni intelligence and military officials would “work together to kil…
November 21, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, the Fiscal Cliff, and "Killer Robots"
Nicholas Schmidle, “After Pakistan,” The New Yorker, November 26, 2012. And then there were the drones. A couple of weeks ago, on his first day at Columbia, Munter admonished a class of fourteen law…
July 29, 2013
United States
Recommended Reading For the Fall Semester
A friend who teaches U.S. foreign policy at a public policy school asked me for a few reading recommendations for the fall semester. Specifically, she requested books or reports written in the past a…
August 16, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Spies, Think Tanks, and Stuxnet Realities
Gregory D. Johnsen, “Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America?” The Atlantic, August 14, 2013. At the time of the meeting, the boy didn’t know that the United States had decided to kill a man named Adnan a…
May 18, 2021
Israel
Will an Arms Sale to Israel be Delayed While It Defends Against Terrorist Attacks?
A congressional request for delay tests the Biden administration