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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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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…
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…
March 5, 2003
United States
Distinguished Senior Statesmen James Schlesinger and Thomas Pickering Chair New Council Task Force, Iraq: The Day After
March 5, 2003 - Former Defense Secretary and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger and former UN Ambassador Thomas Pickering are co-chairing the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force, Iraq: The Day A…
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…
March 11, 2003
United States
President Bush Should ’Stay the Course’ in Postwar Iraq to Ensure Battlefield Victory is not Lost, Says Council Task Force
Stabilization and Reconstruction Could Cost up to $20 Billion per Year for Several Years March 12, 2003 - The President should “make clear to the Congress, to the American people, and to the peo…