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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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August 23, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Cyber Defense, Egypt, Drone Strikes in Iraq?
CNN, "Transcript of President Obama’s Interview on ’New Day’," August 23, 2013. What I think the American people also expect me to do as president is to think through what we do from the perspective…
July 16, 2013
International Organizations
Guest Post: UNSC Debate on the Protection of Journalists in Armed Conflict
Julia Trehu is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. On Wednesday, July 17, the United States Mission to the United Nations (UN), which holds the UN Secu…
January 27, 2006
United States
Imports surge, GDP and exports don’t …
The market thinks that the (bad) q4 GDP number is old news; the economy is looking far better in q1. The market is also banking on stronger export growth to help support US growth in 2006. See Jus…
October 31, 2013
United States
This Week: Syria Destroys CW Facilities, Egypt Continues Crackdown, and Washington Hosts Maliki
Significant Developments Syria. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced today that Syria had “completed rendering inoperable its chemical weapons production and assembly i…
December 13, 2013
Defense Technology
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, Malaria, and Defense Contractors
Hakim Almasmari, “Yemen says U.S. drone struck a wedding convoy, killing 14,” CNN, December 13, 2013. A U.S. drone mistakenly targeted a wedding convoy in Yemen’s al-Baitha province after intelligen…
