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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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April 26, 2012
United States
The Pentagon’s Threat Smorgasbord
Last week, while discussing U.S. military planning for the Korean Peninsula, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned, “No question we’re within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the wo…
June 8, 2012
Asia
Elizabeth Leader: Trip by Panetta Affirms Shifting U.S. Stance
Elizabeth Leader is a research associate for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. The visit of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to Southeast Asia last week reaffirmed the Obama adm…
November 25, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Gulu and Detroit: Bicycles to the Rescue
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
April 7, 2014
China
Nigeria is Officially “Africa’s Largest Economy”
On April 6, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that after “rebasing,” Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) almost doubled to U.S. $509.9 billion. That figure is dramatically larger t…
November 12, 2010
China
Obama in Seoul: Underscoring the Sino-U.S. Gap on North Korea
Although the main stories of the Obama visit to Korea revolved around the gap between the United States and China on global rebalancing issues at the G-20 and the failure of Presidents Obama and Le…
