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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 1, 1996
Conflict Prevention
Toward Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe
While the Dayton agreement on Bosnia-Herzegovina has moved that troubled region toward peace, it could not eliminate all the dangers precipitated by the breakup of Yugoslavia. The South Balkans—Kosov…
January 1, 1998
Conflict Prevention
Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action
Read an excerpt of Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action. In 1996, there were violent intrastate conflicts in ninety countries around the world. Governments, international organizations, nong…
January 1, 1999
Cuba
U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century
Having contained Cuban support for revolution in Latin America and perceiving signs of strong stirrings of a new civil society in Cuba, the United States should take steps to “contribute to rapid, pe…
March 26, 1999
Afghanistan
Testimony on the Situation in Afghanistan Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Recent Events and Political Actors in AfghanistanFor policy recommendations, see text of oral testimony1. INTRODUCTION: SUMMARY OVERVIEW1On August 8, 1998, the Taliban (Islamic student) movement of A…
November 17, 1999
Trade
Who Decides? Congress and the Debate Over Trade Policy in 1934 and 1974
Introduction Governor Adlai E. Stevenson thought trade policy was boring; he once described it as one field where the greatest need is for fresh clichés. He had a point. In the long period that th…