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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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November 28, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
New From CFR: John Campbell on Africa’s Outlook
Yesterday on his blog, CFR senior fellow John Campbell reviewed a piece by Simon Freemantle of Standard Bank Research on “whether the Africa glass is half full or half empty.” As Campbell writes: I …
September 14, 2017
North Korea
Russia and the North Korean Nuclear Challenge
North Korea’s sixth nuclear test on September 3, 2017, generated reports of tremors being felt as far away as Changchun, China, over 400 miles from the Punggye-ri test site. Although it stands to rea…
November 27, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Is the Africa Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Simon Fremantle has written a thoughtful analysis on whether the Africa glass is half full or half empty. He argues persuasively that this is the wrong question. A binary discussion between the “Afro…
April 27, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
How to Understand Our Policy in Syria
The last few days have produced a series of important quotations regarding Obama foreign policy. The final line in Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker article on Obama is tops: “One of his advisers described th…
June 10, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Media Reports on Security Service Violence in Northern Nigeria
Outside observers have largely been dependent on Nigerian military statements for news about the operation of the state of emergency and Abuja’s struggle with the Islamist insurgencies lumped under t…
