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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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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…
April 15, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Pathway to Peace or Mangled Mission in Libya?
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy greets Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 13, 2011. (Philippe Wojazer/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Barack Obama, Da…
February 3, 2012
Politics and Government
Friday File: Is a U.S. Military Strike on Iran Nearing?
Above the Fold. The rhetoric on Iran certainly heated up this week. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta noted ominously on Sunday “if we have to do it, we will do it” when asked what the United States …
March 13, 2014
International Law
Syria and the Global Humanitarian Crisis
Three years after the outbreak of war in Syria, the agony only deepens for its civilian population. The conflict has already killed 140,000, forced 9.5 million—44 percent of the nation’s prewar inh…
July 30, 2013
Japan
Aldrich, Platte, and Sklarew: What’s Ahead for Abe’s Energy Agenda?
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a major victory in the Upper House election on July 21, and gained control of both houses of the Diet together with its coalition partner New Komeito. Th…
