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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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February 11, 2019
United States
The Aftermath of the INF Treaty, With Lori Esposito Murray
Lori Esposito Murray, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, discusses President Donald J. Trump's decision to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the future of international nucle…
December 1, 2015
Human Rights
The Sad Case of Lori Berenson
Twenty years ago Lori Berenson, a young American, was convicted of assisting a terrorist group in Peru in a plot to assault and seize the Congress in Lima. Soon she will be coming home, her sentenced…
March 30, 2024
Venezuela
Will the Biden Administration Abandon Democracy in Venezuela?
Biden administration policy toward Venezuela has abandoned concern about democracy and human rights, instead placing oil prices, migration, and presidential politics above them. Will it change?
October 28, 2016
China
Bringing International Pressure To Bear on Nicolás Maduro
[This post was co-authored with John Polga-Hecimovich*. It is the third of a series that begins with this post.] The collapse in Venezuela has many potential costs: democratic regression in Latin Am…
February 8, 2024
Chile
Chile’s Inferno, NATO Ramps Up Security Exercises, Indonesia’s Presidential Election, and More
Chile works to recover from the devastating wildfire in its central Valparaíso region; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) continues with its 2024 Steadfast Defender exercise, the largest s…
February 8, 2024
United States
The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.
