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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 8, 2015
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Weekend Reading: A Return to Idlib, Secular Politics in Egypt, and al-Qaeda in Syria
Ahmad al-Akla writes about people’s return to rebel-controlled Idlib, Syria. A new party in Egypt calls for a secular constitution. Juan Cole discusses how recent shifts in Syria are driven by Turk…
July 25, 2023
Latin America
Latin America This Week: July 25, 2023
Peru shows no economy is insulated from politics forever; Panama and few others bat above the average on anticorruption; Xóchitl Gálvez puts opposition on the map ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential …
August 30, 2023
Colombia
Petro’s Total Peace Plan Turns One: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Petro’s peace plan is neither a total failure nor a total success, for now.
July 10, 2023
Venezuela
U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela Takes a Body Blow
Biden administration policy toward Venezuela was based on negotiating regime political concessions in exchange for lifting sanctions. But repression is growing and the policy is failing.
November 24, 2020
Nigeria
Nigeria's Cultural Efflorescence
Two weeks ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian novelist celebrated for her Half a Yellow Sun, was awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction as the author of the best book to win the annual prize over the past twenty-five years.
May 31, 2023
Brazil
South America’s Minimum Consensus on Democracy is Gone
Forget regional integration. Basic diplomacy will remain an uphill battle until the region’s leaders return to a shared definition of democracy.
