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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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February 20, 2013
Thailand
Thailand’s Insurgency Enters Its Second Generation
In all the recent news about the southern Thailand insurgency—a failed attack by insurgents on a marine base in the south, and a string of attacks in recent days that included at least fifty bombings…
March 14, 2011
United States
Yudhoyono and Wikileaks
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives at the Noi Bai airport for his return home in Hanoi on October 27, 2010. (Nguyen Huy Kham/Courtesy Reuters) On Friday, Asia Sentinel and the Au…
June 17, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Is NATO Headed for History’s Ash Heap?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addresses a news conference at the end of a NATO defense ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels on June 9, 2011. (Thierry Roge/courtesy Reuters) …
October 21, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: The Super Committee Has Thirty-Three Days
A pigeon sits on a clock in Frankfurt. (Alex Domanski/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The super committee now has a bit more than a month to strike a long-term deficit reduction deal. I’m skeptica…
June 24, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Afghanistan and Argument by Epithet
President Barack Obama speaks to soldiers from the tenth Mountain Division during his visit to Fort Drum in New York on June 23, 2011. Above the Fold. The reactions this week by proponents of the Af…
