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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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June 10, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
After Assad, Democracy in Syria?
The bloody war that the Assad regime is waging against the people of Syria will end in the downfall of the regime. Whether that will take months or years is impossible to say; how many peaceful demon…
January 21, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
In Search of “the International Community”
“The international community” is among the most commonly invoked and most frequently vilified phrases in world politics. As Tod Lindberg points out in a new CFR working paper, “Making Sense of the In…
September 15, 2014
United States
ISIS and Us: No Way To Go To War
Washington is in an ISIS frenzy. Everywhere you turn, everything you read, every place you go, you can’t escape ISIS. Since James Foley was beheaded on August 19, everyone in and around the Beltway…
July 3, 2013
Trade
The U.S.-EU Spying Fiasco: Why Commercial Espionage is a Bad Idea for the United States
When I was a young reporter in 1993 covering the final days of the Uruguay Round world trade negotiations in Geneva, I got a strange phone call in my hotel room from one of the lobbyists for a big U…
March 3, 2011
United States
The Blame Game
The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters) The blame game. It’s an old inside the Beltway tradition that too often spills into the 24 hour news …
