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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 10, 2015
United States
Guest Post: Preventing the Third Intifada
Patrick Romano is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. If tensions escalate further, the West Bank could erupt in a violent uprising—sometimes referred …
December 26, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
No Christmas for South Sudan
The current crisis in South Sudan escalated on December 15, when President Salva Kiir accused his long-time political rival former vice president Riek Machar of attempting a coup. Since then, there h…
March 20, 2015
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Weekend Reading: Wasting Capital on a New Capital, Jihadism in Tunisia, and Israel’s Election
Khaled Fahmy criticizes the Egyptian government’s plan to invest money in building a new capital rather than fixing Cairo’s endemic problems. Simon Cordall investigates the social and intellectual a…
May 15, 2020
Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: May 15, 2020
U.S. government agencies accuse China of targeting COVID-19 research; TSMC to build chip factory in Arizona; Huawei struggles internationally without Google Apps; Cyberattack targets Iranian port; an…
September 21, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa Impoverished?
I had always thought that Africa was a cornucopia of mineral riches: gold, platinum, coal, diamonds, oil--you name it; Africa has it all. Maybe not so, writes Bright Simons in "Africa’s Fabulous Mi…
