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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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March 8, 2012
Pakistan
Gauging Taliban Moves in Pakistan
Reports that Pakistan-based militant groups may be moving to unite could help clarify U.S. talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But CFR’s Daniel Markey calls it a tricky game, complicated by unclea…
February 24, 2012
Afghanistan
Protests Over Quran Burning May Spread Beyond Afghanistan
The protests sweeping Afghanistan over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base may spread to other Muslim countries unless U.S. and NATO officials act swiftly, says CFR’s Ed Husain.
June 8, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram Rejects Talks with the Nigerian Government – Again
Yesterday, I blogged about a highly respected Islamic cleric and his efforts to facilitate dialogue between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram with the goal of a ceasefire. The cleric, Sheikh Da-…
November 5, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram, Negotiations, and the Nigerian Federal Government
Jacob Zenn, of the Jamestown Foundation, had a response to my November 2nd post Boko Haram Offers Cease Fire Opportunity? He writes: “The "Abu Muhammed Ibn Abdulaziz" who spoke with the media seems …
November 5, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian Religious Leaders Complain About Local Corruption
In countries where corruption has become “structural,” distorting much of daily life, it can assume very localized forms. A petition by thirty-two imams, deputy imams, and muezzins of certain mosques…
April 13, 2016
United States
ISIL as a Mass Movement
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 12, 2016, Graeme Wood discussed the self-proclaimed Islamic State as a mass movement and laid out the reasons for reasonable vers…