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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 22, 2024
Economics
The IMF Needs to Focus on Setting Good Targets for External Debt Sustainability
The IMF has two frameworks for assessing debt sustainability. The market access country framework is more technically advanced, but it isn't delivering reasonable targets for debt restructuring cases…
December 30, 2021
2021 in Review
Five Good Foreign Policy News Stories in 2021
As 2021 comes to a close, here are five positive stories on the foreign policy front that happened in the past year.
August 17, 2015
Cuba
Did The Kerry Visit To Cuba Matter?
Secretary of State Kerry traveled to Havana to raise the flag at the U.S. Embassy there last week. As has been noted here in this blog and in many news articles and columns, no dissidents or human ri…
August 4, 2014
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The USS Maddox was on alert on the evening of August 4, 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two nights earlier North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked it without warning. The Maddox had driven them off wi…
July 5, 2017
Egypt
Egypt’s Leader Faces a Crisis of His Own Making—One That Reveals His Nation’s Dangerous Weakness
Two obscure islands that many Egyptians didn't even know about suddenly threaten President Sisi's regime.
