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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 4, 2016
Wars and Conflict
Women Around the World: This Week
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering February 26 to March 3, was compiled by A…
January 25, 2011
Egypt
Cairo Protests
Cairo - Well, today was the big day…January 25th…National Police Day…and Egypt’s Day of Rage. It began for me at 230am when I was wandering back to my hotel from Bab el Luq. I found myself on Fala…
October 29, 2008
Defense and Security
Cross-Border Attack on Syria Raises Iranian Eyebrows
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, a former advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team, says the U.S. cross-border incursion from Iraq into Syria has Tehran worried about the implications for its own territory.
June 25, 2012
Afghanistan
What It Will Take to Secure Afghanistan
Afghanistan is approaching a major inflection point in its long and turbulent history. In 2014 most of the foreign military forces are due to pull out. With them will go the bulk of foreign financing…
March 2, 2009
Afghanistan
Iraq and Afghanistan: Tough Balancing Act for Obama
Stephen Biddle, a senior defense and counterterrorism analyst, says that President Obama’s schedule for reducing and then ending the U.S. deployment in Iraq "is a reasonable compromise between severa…