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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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December 4, 2014
United States
This Week: Mubarak’s Acquittal Challenged and Israel’s Government Dissolves
Significant Developments Egypt. Egypt’s top prosecutor announced Tuesday that he plans to appeal an Egyptian court’s dismissal of all remaining charges against former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. …
October 23, 2014
United States
This Week: Turkey’s Acquiescence and Iran Sanctions
Significant Developments ISIS-Turkey. Turkey announced on Monday that it would allow Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces to cross its border to come to Kobani’s defense, five weeks after the start of ISI…
February 16, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Iran’s Nuclear Program and Syria’s Civil War
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the UN inspectors visiting Iran for a second time; the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunis; and the convening of G20 foreign ministers i…
November 12, 2010
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Obama in Asia
Above the Fold: The big news of the week has been President Obama’s Asia trip. The coverage at home has generally been positive. Walter Russell Mead reviews the India leg of the trip and applauds…
March 9, 2016
Iran
Dangerous Illusions About Iran
Last year’s Iran nuclear agreement was sold with several powerful arguments, and among the most important were these: that the agreement would strengthen Iranian "moderates" and thus Iran’s external …