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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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August 16, 2016
Health
Podcast: An Assessment of Former WHO Director-Generals and Previous Rounds of Director-General Elections
The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1948, seven individuals have served as the WHO director-gener…
August 12, 2013
Development
Rethinking the Meaning of Development
How should the status and progress of a country or people be measured and judged? For over six decades, the standard metric has been economic production and consumption-—per capita income, as various…
August 18, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Guest Post: Bollyky on Tobacco and Trade
Jagdish, a thirty-two-year-old daily wage laborer, smokes a cigarette while working at a timber market in Mumbai on June 7, 2011. (Danish Siddiqui/courtesy Reuters) President Obama…
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…
April 14, 2017
Health
Will the Director General Election Bring About the Change the World Health Organization is Looking for?
The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. For those who have been used to the noise and excitement in U.S. …
