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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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August 19, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Sanctions on Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad answers journalists after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 9, 2010. (Benoit Tessier/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. President Obama’s call yeste…
September 20, 2019
Global Governance
Five Centuries after Magellan, Globalization Needs to Grow Up—and Fast
On this anniversary of Magellan's first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, we should reflect on the trajectory globalization has taken—and adopt a more cosmopolitan approach to life on our shrin…
April 7, 2014
International Organizations
Lessons of the Rwandan Genocide
Coauthored with Patrick McCormick, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Twenty years ago yesterday two surface-to-air missiles ripped into a plane carr…
April 15, 2010
Fossil Fuels
Projecting future oil demand
Joyce Dargay and Dermot Gately have a new paper out that projects 134 mb/d global oil demand in 2030, which is far higher than the standard projections (IEA, EIA, OPEC), all of which are in the neigh…
July 31, 2014
Wars and Conflict
TWE Remembers: World War I Poetry
“I think that I shall never see / A poem as lovely as a tree.” Most Americans know the opening lines of the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. What they probably don’t know is that Kilmer was a war hero—t…
