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Introduction
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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June 25, 2013
Transnational Crime
The Global Regime for Transnational Crime
This page is part of the Global Governance Monitor. Scope of the Challenge Over the past two decades, as the world economy has globalized, so has its illicit counterpart. The global impact of t…
August 31, 2011
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
The Global Regime for Terrorism
This page is part of the Global Governance Monitor. Scope of the Challenge September 11, 2001, shocked the international system, changing global perspectives on both the threat of terrorism and…
May 11, 2012
Human Rights
The Global Human Rights Regime
This page is part of the Global Governance Monitor. Scope of the Challenge Although the concept of human rights is abstract, how it is applied has a direct and enormous impact on daily life wor…
October 15, 2013
Fossil Fuels
The Shale Gas and Tight Oil Boom
Introduction U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country's dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply risin…
August 24, 2001
Immigration and Migration
Rethinking the Line
600 luminaries, including Texas Governor Rick Perry and Governor Tomas Yarrington of Tamaulipas, Mexico gathered in Edinburg, Texas on August 22 to chat up the border. The agenda of the U.S.-Mexico B…
