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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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March 9, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Politics of Iran War Fever
Above the Fold. President Obama used his speech to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last Sunday and his White House press conference to take his critics to task f…
January 13, 2015
Military Operations
Guest Post: Obama’s Legacy-Troop Reductions or Drone Strikes?
Amelia M. Wolf is a research associate in the Center for Preventive Action and the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In its latest edition…
August 30, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Syria Intervention, WMDs, the "Black Budget”
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary,” Washington Post, August 29, 2013. The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fis…
February 21, 2012
International Organizations
¡Viva México! The G20’s New Political and Security Agenda
Meeting last weekend in Los Cabos, Mexico, for their first, “informal” gathering, G20 foreign ministers made a pivotal decision: to expand the G20 agenda to encompass pressing political and security …
January 7, 2011
Friday File: Welcome Back Bill Daley, Congratulations Gene Sperling
U.S. President Barack Obama introduces William Daley as the new White House Chief of Staff. (Jason Reed/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. President Obama has a new White House chief of staff, Bill …
