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Introduction
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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November 19, 2014
Nigeria
U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram
Overview The militant Islamist group Boko Haram's increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Chr…
March 1, 2006
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism
Overview A nuclear attack by terrorists against the United States has the potential to make the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, look like a historical footnote. In addition to the imme…
March 4, 2009
Economic Crises
Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis
Overview As the economic crisis has spread from financial markets to real economies in countries around the world, governments have understandably focused on short-term measures to contain the dam…
December 5, 2010
International Organizations
UN Security Council Enlargement and U.S. Interests
Overview The UN Security Council remains an important source of legitimacy for international action. Yet despite dramatic changes in the international system over the past forty-five years, the co…
June 2, 2011
International Law
Justice Beyond The Hague
Overview When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established more than twenty years ago, the international community had little experience prosecuting the per…
