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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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January 18, 2023
Health
Daughters and Sons Guest Event: A Conversation With Anthony Fauci
After more than five decades at the National Institutes of Health, physician-scientist Anthony S. Fauci, MD recently stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disea…
April 10, 2024
Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.
September 15, 2010
Military Operations
Discrete U.S. Military Operations Have Been Ineffective, Argues CFR’s Micah Zenko in New Book
Limited military force—using enough force to resolve a problem while minimizing U.S. military deaths, local civilian casualties, and collateral damage—has increased since the end of the Cold War desp…
March 6, 2014
United States
Guest Post: Conflict Prevention Challenges in 2014
Anna Feuer and Helia Ighani are research associates in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Syrian civil war highlights some of the most challenging features of …
March 6, 2015
United States
Guest Post: Preventing Cultural Destruction by ISIS
Aliza Litchman is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S.-led coalition has been unsuccessful in halting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (I…
August 15, 2014
United States
Guest Post: Implications of Declining Israeli Sympathy
Elena Vann is an interdepartmental intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. Once a small, noble state heralded for its democratic values and established after the horrors of the Holocaust, Israel…
