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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 23, 2014
North Korea
Roberta Cohen: Moving Forward on North Korean Human Rights
Roberta Cohen is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in human rights and humanitarian issues. “Now is the time to act,” the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Huma…
May 18, 2011
Elections and Voting
TWE Mailbag: UN Human Rights Council on Syria, Herman Cain on Afghanistan
An Austrian Post employee sorts letters in Vienna. (Leonhard Foeger/courtesy Reuters) The White House just announced that it has imposed financial sanctions on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and s…
February 28, 2018
China
China Is Likely to Enter Another Long Period of Severe Dictatorship
Term limits for the leadership are not usually found in dictatorships. The Chinese Communist Party’s proposed abolition of China’s presidential term limit means that it has forgotten one of the main …
December 19, 2023
Education
U.S. Campuses and the Problem of Antisemitism
The "DEI" bureaucracies in U.S. colleges are failing to protect Jewish students from a wave of antisemitism. The right reaction is to recognize how pernicious they are, not to plead that Jewish stude…
February 5, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
Eighty Years of U.S. Policy Toward Africa, Now in One Place
Until now, there has not been a comprehensive survey of U.S. policy toward Africa for either the specialist or the general reader. Now, happily, there is. Herman J. Cohen (‘Hank’) has just published U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik, covering fourteen U.S. administrations. It is hard to think of anyone as qualified as Ambassador Cohen to undertake such a work. A career Foreign Service Officer, Hank Cohen was, inter alia, charge in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ambassador to Senegal, senior director for Africa at the National Security Council, and assistant secretary for Africa at the U.S. Department of State.
