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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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July 5, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, Armed Conflict Data, and Snowden’s Fate
Hope Hodge, The Pentagon’s Hollywood Liaison, Army Times, July 8, 2013. The U.S. military has played a supporting role in blockbuster films almost since the invention of the silver screen… Since 19…
December 28, 2018
Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2018
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
August 24, 2005
United States
Are we ignoring the United States’ strengths?
Anantha Nageswaran of Libran Asset Management in Singapore has submitted a set of (lengthy) comments that respond, in some sense, to many of the points I and others have raised on this blog. Check …
January 16, 2013
Wars and Conflict
Denying Jihadists Safe Haven in Mali
France’s decision to intervene forcefully in Mali is a welcome development in the campaign to eradicate transnational terrorism in Africa. It comes after weeks of diplomatic dithering over how to res…
November 25, 2014
United States
Why Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigned
Gopal Ratnam, “Picking Up the Pieces at the Pentagon,” ForeignPolicy.com, November 25, 2014. Although the White House portrayed Hagel’s departure as a usual cabinet change post a midterm election th…
May 24, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Ireland’s Referendum, the UN’s Debate on Yemen, North Atlantic Hurricanes, and Memorial Day
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Ireland’s referendum on the EU’s fiscal treaty; the UN Security Council’s debate on Yemen; the beginning of hurricane season in the Nort…
