US-Mexico Relations in the Trump Era—Where Do We Go From Here?
Photo: Reuters/Henry Romero In my class with the Strauss Center’s Mexico Security Initiative[1],...
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Tag: international relations
Changing China’s Currency Calculus
As efforts to reinvigorate the American economy continue, one of the administration’s highest priorities should be collaborating with Congress on current proposals – including the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Act...
Read MoreBuild Trade Relations with China, Not Trade Barriers
History cannot help us see the future, but it can help us avoid the mistakes of the past. The Senate passed, and the majority of the House would support, legislation that will penalize China for keeping its currency...
Read MoreCuts to Aid Are Cuts to Security
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was fond of saying that the Department of Defense has “more people in military bands than (the State Department has) in the Foreign Service.” His observation reveals a...
Read MoreWe Don’t Have to Be the Big Bad Wolf
Israel and Palestine. It’s an issue that many people refuse to touch with a 10-foot pole, dismissing it as a hopeless black hole of debate. Over the past 20 years, it seems the only thing the peace talks and...
Read MoreWe Should Have Seen This Coming
How is it possible that in 2011 the world failed prevent famine in the Horn of Africa? The signs of disaster were present: two years of drought, no food storage, political instability, civil war and banned foreign...
Read MoreTen Years of War
Ten years ago George W. Bush was sitting in a Florida classroom with a 51 percent approval rating. When the dust had cleared at the end of the day, three buildings had collapsed into rubble and 3,000 Americans...
Read MoreRedefining Stability in Light of 9/11 and the Arab Spring
Reflecting on September 11 has become a sort of tradition over the past 10 years, an opportunity to consider how American policy and society has transformed since this shocking event which has become a sort of...
Read MoreTargeting the Truly Vulnerable
When we think of the places that are threatened by climate change, we think of tiny islands on the edge of pulling an Atlantis, coastlines where homes fall into the ocean when the shore erodes or the water levels rise, or...
Read MoreAttitudes at the Knife’s Edge
For the last week and a half, I have been in Ethiopia, conducting research on climate change and adaptation. Rambling around Addis Ababa and the Central Rift Valley has been an exercise in patience and flexibility, but...
Read MoreGetting Back to the BASICs of Climate Change
Members of both chambers of the U.S. Congress are pushing bills that will dramatically slash what little funding the U.S. spends on climate change research and action. This includes major funding cuts for the EPA and...
Read MoreExplaining NAPAs and Climate Change Adaptation
Developed countries’ aid programs in Africa often center on responding to the challenges created by climate change, such as desertification, coastal erosion, flooding, and myriad other problems affecting food...
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