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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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March 18, 2019
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Trump Is Repeating the Mistakes of America’s Interwar Isolationists
The Trump administration is repeating the mistakes of America’s interwar isolationists, who believed that the nation could and should insulate itself from global troubles. To understand this attitude…
November 14, 2013
United States
Red Star Over Cairo?
When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx a…
August 3, 2016
United States
Revisiting President Reagan’s Iran Arms-for-Hostages Initiative
The Wall Street Journal published an important story about the Obama administration’s decision in January to ship $400 million, which was first converted into Swiss and Dutch currencies, to Iran on b…
March 21, 2013
Trade
The Rising Tide: A New Look at Trade, Jobs, and Wages
In the Council on Foreign Relations 2011 Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy, we noted that many economists had begun to worry that growing U.S. trade with developing countries…
May 25, 2023
Cybersecurity
The Cyber Safety Review Board Should Investigate Major Historical Incidents
The U.S. Cybersecurity Review Board was established to provide a definitive history of major cyber incidents. Today it has fallen away from that mission, but there are three incidents to investigate …
