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March 3, 2014

China

Tracking the Traffickers: Understanding the Illegal Wildlife Trade Supply Chain

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Over the past year the plight of Africa’s elephants and rhinos has captured in…

A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer stands guard near a shipment of elephant tusks and rhino horns which was intercepted at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in the capital Nairobi August 23, 2010.

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

September 27, 2018

Iran

U.S. vs. Iran: Parsing the War of Words at the UN

Despite the sharp exchanges between the U.S. and Iranian presidents at the United Nations, new negotiations may not be so far-fetched as sanctions intensify against Tehran.

In Brief by Ray Takeyh

September 19, 2011

International Organizations

Trade Policy in the ICU

A container ship operated by the China Ocean Shipping Company docked in the Port of Oakland in California. (Beck Diefenbach/ Courtesy Reuters) After World War II, the United States spearheaded a his…

Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

December 18, 2020

Cybersecurity

Week in Review: December 18, 2020

Big tech's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week; Russia’s SolarWinds hack compromises thousands of customers; Facebook calls out France and Russia for misinformation operations in Africa; Germa…