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February 5, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Tracking the Traffickers: The Debate over Legalizing Trade in Rhino Horn

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. 2014 has had a bad beginning with respect to the preservation of Africa’s rema…

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens wait for a tranquillised male white rhinoceros to collapse to the ground, before implanting a radio transmitter, at the Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 160 km (99 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, November 8, 2013.

June 21, 2012

United States
The Tobacco Wars: International Trade Disputes and Tobacco Control

Attended by representatives from the private sector, academia, and government and legal communities, this meeting explored the increasing number of international trade disputes involving tobacco cont…

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December 19, 2015

Cuba
Cuban Political Prisoners Measure the Impact of Obama’s Cuba Policy

This past week marked the anniversary of President Obama’s new Cuba policy. That policy is failing to produce any human rights improvements in Cuba. So this week, 126 Cuban former political prisoner…

June 12, 2019

Global Governance
It’s the Global Economy, Stupid!

Experts from the Council of Councils rank managing the global economy the second highest priority on the global agenda and graded the world's performance on the issue a middling C+. 

A trader at the stock exchange reacts to the election of Donald Trump in Frankfurt, Germany on November 9, 2016.

May 17, 2007

Economics
Visiting Bolivia (part II)

Everyone in Bolivia is focusing on the shift toward "participatory democracy," from the previous "representative democracy." Some embrace this change enthusiastically, while others view it warily. Wh…