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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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February 12, 2024
Palestinian Territories
Democracy and the Two-State Solution
The war in Gaza has focused attention once again on the search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution favored by the United States, the European Union, most of the world’s de…
December 19, 2023
Democracy
What a Democratic Russia Would Mean for the United States
When the Soviet Union collapsed more than thirty years ago, American leaders hoped that Russia would embark on a transition to free-market democracy. Shared democratic values, the thinking went, woul…
January 29, 2024
Philippines
Marcos Jr. Moves the Philippines Dramatically Closer to the United States
Unlike other Southeast Asian leaders, President Marcos Jr. has chosen to explicitly align the Philippines with the United States and confront China more directly.
January 17, 2024
Democracy
Political Hurdles on Ukraine’s Way to EU Membership
After the 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, which overthrew a deeply corrupt, Russian-backed regime, Ukraine declared its ambition to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic community of free-market democracie…
September 25, 2023
Russia
Russia’s Influence in Southeast Asia Is Fading
Russia saw its full-spectrum engagement with Southeast Asia pay dividends following its all-out invasion of Ukraine. But its brief interlude of greater influence in the region is now waning.
October 17, 2022
Immigration and Migration
Border Enforcement Won’t Solve the U.S. Migrant Crisis
When the U.S. Border Patrol tallies the arrests of those illegally crossing the border with Mexico in the past fiscal year, which finished at the end of September, the numbers will shatter a two-deca…
April 21, 2023
Ukraine
What Northern Ireland Teaches Us About Ending the Ukraine War
The Good Friday Agreement offers lessons for trying to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.
