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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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September 3, 2013
International Organizations
Keeping Cool in St. Petersburg: Criteria for a Successful G20 Summit
Call it the summit of "compartmentalizing". When President Obama and fellow leaders convene in St. Petersburg, their toughest challenge will be to focus on economic recovery while ignoring the elepha…
January 24, 2014
Intelligence
You Might Have Missed: USS Cowpens, French Reapers, and the World Economic Forum
Samuel J. Locklear III, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, “Department of Defense Press Briefing by Admiral Locklear in the Pentagon Briefing Room,” U.S. Department of Defense, January 23, 2014. Q: …
March 25, 2011
Defense and Security
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Obama Versus the Framers
I noted in a post earlier today that President Obama can make a credible legal case—if he were ever forced to make one—that he had all the authority he needed to order Operation Odyssey Dawn. But his…
March 30, 2011
Wars and Conflict
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part II
Last week I wrote a post arguing that President Obama’s decision to launch Operation Odyssey Dawn conflicted with the Framers’ conception of the exercise of the war power. The men who wrote the …
July 1, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File:Congress Still Not Biting on Libya
Above the Fold. I wrote two weeks ago that nothing would come of congressional efforts to reverse President Obama on Libya. Lo and behold, lawmakers have given speeches, pounded tables, and held vo…
