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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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May 3, 2023
United Kingdom
Is the Commonwealth Under King Charles III Still Relevant?
The coronation of King Charles, the sovereign of the Commonwealth, calls into question the role of the British monarch on the world stage.
December 30, 2013
China
Robert S. Spalding III: Being Firm With China
Robert S. Spalding III is a military fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Air Defense Identification Zone recently announced by the Chinese was most likely not hastily done. The Chinese d…
October 10, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
Syria by the Numbers III*
Length of Conflict 19 month Deaths Total opposition deaths: 29,234 – 35,323 Civilan: 25,660 – 32,419 Children: 2,748 – 2,818 Opposition military: 2,904 – 3,574 Deaths by Province Homs: 6,642 …
January 20, 2022
Economics
Robert E. Rubin: The Challenges and Future of Capitalism in the United States
There are many critical challenges for the U. S. economy that markets, by their nature, will not address. In this sense, the future of American capitalism thus depends on the future of American polit…
September 6, 2019
Zimbabwe
Good Riddance to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe
During his thirty-seven years in power in Zimbabwe, he committed virtually every human rights violation there is. His hands were awash in the blood of Zimbabweans. Fanning and exploiting racial and class differences, he destroyed the country’s economy, once on the cusp of being one of Africa’s most developed, driving out commercial white farmers. By the time he died, Zimbabwe was an international pariah, an economic basket case, and many or most of the country’s most educated and productive citizens had left the country.
