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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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January 16, 2024
China
How One Port’s Struggle Reveals the Problems—and Promise—of Chinese Infrastructure Financing
Chinese port financing has plenty of drawbacks. But developing countries have few alternatives.
November 7, 2023
Central Africa
CFR Book Launch Series: "The Lumumba Plot" by Stuart Reid
Foreign Affairs Executive Editor Stuart Reid discusses his new book, The Lumumba Plot, which follows the dramatic history of the Congo in 1960 on the edge of its independence from Belgium, the ensuin…
October 17, 2023
Central Africa
The Lumumba Plot
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo.
August 25, 2022
West Africa
Preventing Conflict in Coastal West Africa
The Global Fragility Act allows the United States to encourage greater stability in Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo over the next ten years, argues Eric Silla, though it will be contentio…
February 4, 2022
Climate Change
The Growing Risk of Climate "Tipping Points": Scientific Evidence and Policy Responses
Stewart Patrick: Welcome to this roundtable. Today we're going to be discussing an issue that was addressed by no less than Tom Friedman in his latest New York Times column this week: the possib…
April 30, 2021
Benin
Benin's Democracy Continues its Downward Spiral
Benin has been something of a poster child for African democracy following its move away from Marxism–Leninism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But since Patrice Talon was elected in 2016, the president has systematically squeezed the substance out of the democratic and constitutional forms, leaving only a shell.
