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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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January 9, 2018
South Korea
Increasing U.S.-ROK-ASEAN Cooperation
This post is co-authored by Sungtae "Jacky" Park, research associate for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since its establishment in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nat…
March 11, 2010
North Korea
Rajin-Sonbong: North Korea’s (New?) Strategy to Attract Foreign Investment
I’ve been watching North Korea ramp up efforts to attract foreign investment since Jack Pritchard and I heard last November in Pyongyang from the chairman of Pyongyang’s Foreign Investment Advisory B…
April 19, 2012
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech to Congress
Americans love generals. We have elected twelve of them president. But for a president, generals can be an enormous pain—and a political threat. James K. Polk worried (rightly) that Winfield Scott wa…
August 20, 2012
Defense and Security
Armed Drones and the Hunt for bin Laden
Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the best chance the United States had to kill Osama bin Laden before he led al-Qaeda to plan and carry out the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In addition to failing…
March 24, 2011
North Korea
The “Libya Model” and What’s Next in North Korea
A billboard depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is seen through the fence of the North Korea embassy in Beijing January 21, 2011. (Jason Lee/Courtesy Reuters) While the events of the past week…
