Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
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…
December 23, 2013
Middle East and North AfricaSecretary of State Kerry continues his "peace process" efforts at hammering out a comprehensive deal, or at least a framework deal, between Israelis and Palestinians. Two recent articles are reminde…
July 18, 2014
IsraelSympathy and support for Hamas are much lower in the Arab world than in past Israeli-Hamas conflicts--except in Qatar, whose government has a special relationship with Hamas. Indeed Hamas’s political…
February 25, 2013
Middle East and North AfricaThere must be something in the water over at the State Department that leads successive secretaries of state to decide, seemingly on their first day there, that now is the time for a big new push at …
February 9, 2016
Middle East and North AfricaThe Under Secretary of State for "Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights," Sarah Sewall, is today in Egypt. She might as well have stayed home. Because today, Secretary of State Kerry did a…
August 6, 2015
CubaSecretary of State Kerry will visit Cuba soon--on August 14. Since the opening of diplomatic relations and of the Cuban embassy in Washington, what’s been going on in Cuba? More repression. There w…