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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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April 5, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria’s Friends Meet, Kofi Announces a Deadline, and Egypt’s Brotherhood Fields a Candidate
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. The Friends of Syria group held its second ministerial conference on Sunday to discuss UN special envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan for Syria. Meeting in Ista…
December 12, 2011
International Organizations
Nuggets from the World Policy Conference
Austrian President Heinz Fischer makes a speech at the opening of the World Policy Conference at the historic Hofburg palace in Vienna December 9, 2011. The World Policy Conference is devoted to the …
March 22, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Modest Security Council Steps on Syria While Copts Mourn in Egypt
Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt for over forty years, died last Saturday. Thousands of mourners attended his Cairo fune…
June 2, 2014
Turkey
The Sources of Erdogan’s Conduct
There is a lot that seems inexplicable about Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent conduct. In the last few years, the Turkish prime minister has squandered the good will of many of his citizens and his cou…
May 2, 2014
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Terrorism, Women in Nonprofits, and China
Ehud Yaari and Michael Morell, “Israel vs. al-Qaeda: Emerging Challenges on Two Fronts,” The Washington Institute, April 29, 2014. Michael Morell: For everyone 100 hours I spent in the Sit Room talk…
