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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, 2014
The World Next Week: Ukraine Protests Turn Violent, UN Report Condemns North Korea’s Human Rights Record, and the Sochi Olympics Come to a Close
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the escalating conflict in Ukraine, the United States and South Korea’s joint military exercises, and the end of the Sochi Winter Olympi…
March 21, 2014
The World Next Week: Obama Visits The Hague, Brussels, Rome, and Riyadh
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Obama’s upcoming international trip. The president will be stopping in The Hague, where he will attend the Nuclear Security Summit and m…
March 26, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Hello (Ciao), Matteo Renzi: Prime Minister of Italy
When President Barack Obama stops in Rome tomorrow he will be meeting with a politician who can match his own meteoric rise to power: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Last month the thirty-nine-y…
December 16, 2016
Global
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2016
As 2016 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.
December 30, 2016
International Organizations
Steering a World in Disarray: Ten Summits to Watch in 2017
After a tumultuous 2016, the world holds its breath for what the coming year may bring. Angry populism is on the march. Great power relations are tense. The Middle East has imploded. Meanwhile, Presi…
