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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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September 6, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: September 11, the November Election, and Ben Bernanke
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks; the home stretch of the presidential campaign; and what Federal Reserve Chairman …
August 23, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Lebanon Erupts, Syria Boils, and Egypt Builds Up
Significant Middle East Developments Lebanon. Renewed clashes broke out today in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli between Sunnis and Alawites, despite a ceasefire brokered yesterday. Since fightin…
February 14, 2013
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Italy Votes, NATO Defense Ministers Meet, and the UN Security Council Discusses North Korea
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Italy’s upcoming elections, the NATO defense ministers’ meeting in Brussels, and the UN Security Council discussion on North Korea. [au…
February 28, 2013
The World Next Week: Kenyans Vote, Italy Awaits a Government, and the Sixtieth Anniversary of Stalin’s Death Is Marked
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Kenyan elections, the scramble to assemble a new government in Italy, and the sixtieth anniversary of Stalin’s death. [audio: http://ww…
December 5, 2013
Regional Organizations
Latin America Charts Its Own Course: Reflections on the Mexico City CoC Meeting
For more than two centuries the United States has loomed—for good and ill—over its southern neighbors. But that longstanding hegemonic role is fading. After two decades of robust growth and democrati…
