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May 8, 2012

Israel
The Reconstitution of Likud

On August 7, 2005, Israel’s Minister of Finance resigned his post in protest against Prime Minister Sharon’s plan to remove settlements and military bases from Gaza. That man was Benjamin Netanyahu. …

January 6, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Violence in the Central African Republic

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The growing violence and chaos in the Central African Republic (CAR) has retur…

Displaced families rest next to their personal belongings as they take refugee from religious violence at the Catholic Church in Bossangao, north of capital Bangui in the Central African Republic December 29, 2013.

June 15, 2010

Turning the Tables on the Cap-and-Trade Skeptics

Trevor Houser and I have a new piece up at Slate. We’ve used the new Chamber of Commerce Index of Energy Security Risk to evaluate the impact of the Kerry-Lieberman clean energy and climate legislati…

April 8, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Tracking the Traffickers: Poaching Is a Symptom of a Deeper Disease

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Robert Hormats, U.S. undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and …

The carcasses of some of the 22 elephant slaughtered in a helicopter-bourne attack lie on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Garamba National Park, in this undated handout picture released by the DRC Military. ()

January 8, 2020

International Law
What Is Extradition?

The extradition process enables governments to bring fugitives abroad to justice, but it can be fraught with political tension, even when a treaty is in place.

Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman arrives in New York in 2017 after his extradition from Mexico.