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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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August 9, 2012
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: An Opportunity for Closer U.S.-South Africa Relations
As Zimbabwe moves closer to elections, the prospect for political violence, even civil war, grows. President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Prime Minist…
April 15, 2011
Sudan
Rethinking Peacemaking in Darfur
Across eight years, two administrations, and the direct interventions of a deputy secretary of state and three special envoys, U.S. attempts to promote a lasting peace for Darfur have failed. The mos…
September 27, 2011
Yemen
Resetting U.S. Policy Toward Yemen
Introduction Yemen is slipping into an uncertain and dangerous future. In early June 2011, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country for the past thirty-three years, narrowly escaped…
June 22, 2016
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Reconfiguring USAID for State-Building
Nation-building abroad has become a neuralgic term in American politics. Opposition to nation-building abroad is one of the few things that President Barack Obama and Donald Trump can agree on. And y…
May 24, 2013
Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines
Preventing Pharmageddon: Treatment Access for Noncommunicable Diseases
A global fight over access to medicines is brewing. In the past year, India, China, and Indonesia have undertaken measures to circumvent patents on medicines for diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular …
