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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 2, 2018
South Korea
Will South Korea’s Olympic Diplomacy Last?
South Korea must capitalize on its diplomatic push to bridge the divide between its longtime ally and its combative neighbor.
February 2, 2011
Development
Egypt’s Uphill Economic Struggles
Whatever change follows Egypt’s political turbulence, any new government will have to confront the country’s rampant unemployment, cronyism, and other factors impeding growth and development, in addi…
March 25, 2014
Egypt
Egypt’s Fateful Verdict
The Egyptian government’s widening crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members, including a surge in death sentences, threatens to radicalize a new generation of Egyptians and spawn jihadist violence, wr…
May 23, 2012
International Organizations
Reinventing the World Health Organization
The World Health Assembly in Geneva this week needs to do more to define a workable mission for the struggling World Health Organization.
February 26, 2015
Health Policy and Initiatives
The Tobacco Treaty Turns Ten
The WHO’s tobacco treaty in 2005 was hailed as a crucial tool for controlling one of the world’s most lethal substances and as a model for confronting other global health problems. Ten years later it…