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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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June 18, 2020
Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: June 18, 2020
Internal report says elite CIA hacking unit failed to secure its own systems; Chinese scientists report progress in developing secure satellite transmissions; Russian scientist charged with passing c…
October 23, 2015
Egypt
Weekend Reading: Libya’s Forgotten War, Egypt’s Hidden Coup, and Falling Oil Prices
Valerie Stocker explores the overlook conflict between Libya’s Tebu and Tuareg communities. Hossam Bahgat investigates a secret military trial in Egypt of twenty-six officers accused of plotting a c…
February 13, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Houses Demolished, Outcry Missing
The government demolishes some houses, saying that they were illegally built on public land. There is an international outcry. True or false? Here’s an account from 2010: Hamas police expelled Pale…
November 9, 2012
Iran
What Must They Think in Tehran?
On November 1, Iranian warplanes attacked a US drone over international waters in the Persian Gulf. CNN had the story, which has been confirmed. In a separate CNN story, a Pentagon spokesman said thi…
December 3, 2015
International Organizations
Civil-Military Cooperation in International Health Crises
The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Ebola epidemic demonstrated not only the human devastation wrou…
