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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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June 10, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
After Assad, Democracy in Syria?
The bloody war that the Assad regime is waging against the people of Syria will end in the downfall of the regime. Whether that will take months or years is impossible to say; how many peaceful demon…
January 14, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Hu Is Coming
U.S. President Barack Obama meets China's President Hu Jintao in Seoul. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington next week for his first visit …
October 15, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Super Committee Has Forty Days
The twelve members of the Congressional Super Committee gather for opening remarks as the panel holds its inaugural meeting on September 8, 2011. (Mike Theiler/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The …
April 23, 2012
Conflict Prevention
Understanding Illicit Networks
We all know that, in recent decades, businesses have internationalized their operations like never before, but a less well-known result of globalization is that transnational criminal enterprises hav…
June 28, 2013
United States
You Might Have Missed: U.S. Humanitarian Interventions, Syria, and the Cheapness of IEDs
Brian T. Haggerty, “Safe Havens in Syria: Missions and Requirements for an Air Campaign,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2012. (PDF) Discussion of military intervention in Syria to addr…