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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 6, 2012
Middle East Matters This Week: Bombs, More Bombs, and Peace Talks
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. At least twenty-five people were killed, and dozens more injured, by a bomb attack in Damascus today. It was the second bombing to take place in Syria’s c…
December 19, 2011
United States
U.S. Foreign Policy: Top Twenty Quotes by the Government in 2011
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication Rhodes and Senior Advisor Axelrod in the Oval Office (July 6, 2010). In researching national secur…
April 19, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Spending on Overseas Bases, Drones over Boston, and Benghazi
Donna Cassata, “Report: US Footing Greater Bill for Overseas Bases,” Associated Press, April 17, 2013. The United States is footing more of the bill for overseas bases in Germany, Japan and South Ko…
May 11, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, and "Big Boy Pants"
Nick Paumgarten, “The World of Surveillance,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2012. Patrick Egan, president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Systems International: "The first ti…
July 12, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Syria Aid, Drones in Africa, and the Bin Laden Raid
Quinnipiac University, “American Voters Say 2-1 Stay Out Of Syria, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Drop In Foreign Policy Approval Keeps Obama Score Low,” July 11, 2013. Eric Schmit…
