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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 8, 2024
LGBTQ+
How (Not) to Talk About Sex in Africa
It is time the LGBTQ+ coalition changed its strategy on the continent.
April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
March 8, 2024
United States
Campaign Roundup: Joe Biden Makes the Case for Ukraine Aid
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: President Joe Biden used his State of the Union Address to urge Congress to provide military aid to…
December 6, 2023
India
Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs—The Reasons Can Be Complex
Few former colonies officially press perpetrator states to redress past injustices, largely due to divergent narrative within victim states about how to view past colonial history.
May 4, 2011
United States
One Egyptian’s Advice to Washington
U.S President Barack Obama at the White House (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters) Hassan ElSawaf, a good friend and sometime guest blogger, has written about the opportunity for the Obama administration to pr…
February 8, 2011
Egypt
Mubarak and Obama: Music and Lyrics
There has been considerable criticism of the Obama Administration’s handling of the Egypt crisis. One telling complaint in my view is that they’ve been all over the lot: seeming to back the protester…
October 23, 2023
Cybersecurity
The Importance of the Internet Governance Forum
The UN has put its weight behind the multilateral Global Digital Compact as a new process to govern the internet. However, the world would be far better off supporting the long-running, multistakehol…
