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    Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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    Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict

    The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

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    Book by Joshua Kurlantzick December 1, 2022 Asia Program

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    NY Book Launch: The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haass

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    CFR President Richard Haass discusses his new book, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, with Juju Chang.  In The Bill of Obligations, Richard Haass argues that the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. Haass introduces ten obligations that are essential for healing our divisions and safeguarding the country’s future. Through an expert blend of civics, history, and political analysis, this book illuminates how Americans can rediscover and recover the attitudes and behaviors that have contributed so much to this country’s success over the centuries.

    Event January 26, 2023 CFR Fellows' Book Launch

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    What the Sankara Assassination Trial Means for West Africa
    The trial against Burkina Faso’s exiled former leader for a decades-old assassination case could signal progress on accountability at a time of coups and upheaval regionwide.
    Article by Ebenezer Obadare March 9, 2022 Africa Program
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    The ICC, the Trump Administration, and Africa
    On November 2—the day before the U.S. presidential election—more than seventy-one states party to the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a statement in a UN General…
    Blog Post by John Campbell November 4, 2020 Africa in Transition
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    Why the ICJ Is Trying to Protect Myanmar’s Rohingya
    The International Court of Justice issued an important decision aimed at protecting Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, but its impact is unclear.
    Article by David J. Scheffer January 24, 2020
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    President Barrow’s Broken Promise Threatens Gambia’s Post-Jammeh Future
    Adam Valavanis is a former intern with the Africa Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a master’s degree in conflict studies from the London School of Economics and Political Scie…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell January 15, 2020 Africa in Transition
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    Gambia’s Tiny Population Belies Its Enormous Exampe
    Michelle Gavin is a senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. From 2011 to 2014, she served as the U.S. ambassador to Botswana and to the Southern African Deve…
    Blog Post by Michelle Gavin June 7, 2018 Africa in Transition
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    The Gambia Leaves the Commonwealth
    Gambia’s dictator, Yahya Jammeh, announced that Gambia is leaving the Commonwealth of Nations, a “neo-colonialist” institution, in his view. He provided no official explanation for the departure. The…
    Blog Post by John Campbell October 7, 2013 Africa in Transition
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