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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…
June 2, 2006
Palestinian TerritoriesZiad J. Asali, president and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine, a group dedicated to setting up a state of Palestine alongside that of Israel, says that the call two weeks ago by Palest…
February 20, 2008
DemocracyAnthony H. Cordesman, a leading expert on Iraq and Afghanistan security issues, found the situation in Afghanistan discouraging during a recent visit, but notes military gains in Iraq.
August 8, 2005
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and DisarmamentCharles L. (Jack) Pritchard, a former top U.S. negotiator with North Korea, who quit the State Department in protest against the Bush administration’s reluctance to deal directly with North Korea, sa…
November 19, 2004
United StatesJames M. Lindsay, the Council’s director of studies, says the foreign policy issues facing the second Bush term will be mostly the same ones "that dominated the last four years"--namely, Iraq, Iran, …
April 27, 2007
Elections and VotingMorton I. Abramowitz, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey during the first Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991, says many Turkish “Secularists” fear that the government headed by the “Islamist” party of Prime Minist…