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January 15, 2015

Cybersecurity
Paris and London Should Think Before They Undermine Encryption

Sharone Tobias is a research associate for Asia Studies and the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have led European lea…

Heads of state including Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (3rdR), Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (2ndR), Poland's Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz (R), Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras attend the solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris on January 11, 2015. (Yves Herman/Courtesy Reuters)

March 13, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Hostage Killings in Northern Nigeria: Some Questions

The tragic murder on March 8 of two kidnapping victims, a British and an Italian engineer, during a Nigerian rescue effort supported by the British raises questions. In a video, UK Prime Minister Dav…

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January 6, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
Haunted by Syria?

"When the history of the Obama administration is written, there will be a long and damaging chapter on its immense humanitarian and strategic failure in Syria. With three years of Obama yet to come, …

October 20, 2015

China
In for a Yuan, in for a Pound: Is the United Kingdom Making a Bad Bet on China?

What exactly is the objection to UK Chancellor George Osborne’s desire for the United Kingdom to be Beijing’s “best partner in the West” and to have a “relationship that is second to none”? After all…

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March 8, 2012

Politics and Government
The World Next Week: The One-Year Anniversary of the Tsunami Disaster in Japan

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the one-year anniversaries of the tsunami in Japan and the start of the Syrian uprising; British Prime Minister David Cameron’s two-day …

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