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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 3, 2016
Wars and Conflict
Nigeria’s 2016 Budget Continues Use of Secretive ‘Security Votes’
In a post originally published on African Arguments, CFR International Affairs Fellow Matthew Page explains that despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s anticorruption progress, the government’s new bud…
March 11, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Evolution from Heroes to Big Men
Friends of Africa often anoint “for the moment” selected leaders from that continent as heroes. Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo, Congo’s Mobutu Sese-Seko, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, and Rwanda’s Paul Kaga…
April 24, 2014
Malaysia
Obama Won’t Meet Anwar, But Susan Rice Will
After sustained pressure from human rights groups, democracy advocates in Congress, and some within the Obama administration who were worried (rightly) that Obama touting Malaysia as a model democrac…
May 10, 2018
Southeast Asia
Can Mahathir Mohamad be Malaysia’s First Democratically Elected Prime Minister?
By Thomas Pepinsky On May 9, Malaysian voters delivered a stunning defeat to the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN, “National Front”) regime. Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has been ruled by a …
