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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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October 14, 2011
United States
You Might Have Missed: Assassination Plot, Drone Virus, and the Syrian Uprising
U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia, on May 10, 2010 (Hyungwon Kang/Courtesy Reuters). - Unite…
August 13, 2019
China
On Designating China as a Currency Manipulator…
China really did manipulate its currency before the global crisis. It really doesn't do so now. But how China's manages its currency still matters for the global economy.
July 3, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Change and Conflict Triggers
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
April 4, 2014
North Korea
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of April 4, 2014
Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. Tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula. South and North Korea exchanged artill…
October 26, 2012
Yemen
Weekend Reading: Women and Early Islam, Yemen’s Separatists, and Syrian Refugees in Egypt
Helen Lackner on Open Democracy, discusses the possibility of southern separatists in Yemen disrupting the country’s unity. Nada Moselhy describes the experience of many of the Syrian refugees now l…
