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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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August 8, 2013
Political Transitions
Guest Post: What Happens When “Foreign Fighter” Means American?
Julia Trehu is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the civil war rages in Syria, the arrival of foreign combatants in the region has become a troubl…
March 23, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Arab League Meets and Obama Visits Korea
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the Arab League summit in Baghdad; President Obama’s visit to the Denuclearized Military Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula as part of h…
April 29, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Donald Trump Champions America First
I have been skeptical that 2016 will be a foreign-policy election. But Donald Trump seems determined to prove me wrong. In a major speech on Wednesday, he launched a frontal assault on the fundamenta…
July 12, 2011
International Organizations
UNSC Reform: Making Room for Brazil
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talks to Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff during their meeting at Planalto Palace in Brasilia (Ueslei Marcelino/ Courtesy Reuters). The Internationalist has some …
July 15, 2014
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
BRICS and Mortals
Leaders of the BRICS--Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa--meet in Rio today to swap World Cup stories and launch a long-discussed "BRICS Bank." The bank creates two funds--a development l…