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Snapshot,
February 5, 2012
Russia's Line in the Sand on Syria
Dmitri Trenin

Russia vetoed a resolution at the UN Security Council to end the violence in Syria because it feels burned by last year's international intervention in Libya, and it harbors suspicions about the motives of the United States.
Essay, Jan/Feb 2012
When Currencies Collapse
Barry Eichengreen

Confidence in the dollar and the euro continues to falter, threatening the international monetary system. The world has faced such monetary collapse before: in the 1930s, with disastrous results, and less catastrophically in the 1970s. Understanding these two precedents is crucial to successfully navigating the crisis today.
Snapshot,
December 13, 2011
How Much Did the Climate Talks in Durban Accomplish?
Ruth Greenspan Bell and Barry Blechman

Climate negotiators are celebrating the deal reached over the weekend at the conference in South Africa. But the agreement only validates an approach to climate change that has failed to reverse global warming for more than 20 years now.
Snapshot,
December 9, 2011
Let Tripoli Try Saif al-Islam
Timothy William Waters

Ever since Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi was captured last month by Libyan rebel fighters, the International Criminal Court has hoped to try him in The Hague. But the Libyan people bore the brunt of the Qaddafi regime's tyranny for nearly half a century, and it is to them that Saif al-Islam should answer.
Snapshot,
November 28, 2011
Saving the Euro Will Mean Worse Trouble for Europe
Vivien A. Schmidt

Markets are reeling because Europe's leaders have only offered up half-measures to resolve the crisis. Not until Brussels, Paris, and Berlin realize the fundamental flaw in their current approach -- a lack of real political and economic integration across the eurozone -- will there be an end in sight.
Response,
November 18, 2011
Setting the Record Straight on WHO Funding
Christy Feig and Sonia Shah

Science journalist Sonia Shah says private money is influencing the decisions of the World Health Organization. The WHO responds.
Snapshot,
November 9, 2011
How Private Companies are Transforming the Global Public Health Agenda
Sonia Shah

Over the last three decades, public funding for global health organizations has dried up. Private companies are writing checks to fill the gap, and, accordingly, they are bending the agenda toward their interests. Realigning priorities, however, will mean getting more private firms involved, not less.
Essay, Nov/Dec 2011
Humanitarian Intervention Comes of AgePremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Jon Western and Joshua S. Goldstein

Despite the fall of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, humanitarian intervention still has plenty of critics. But their targets are usually the early, ugly missions of the 1990s. Since then -- as Libya has shown -- the international community has learned its lessons and grown much more adept at using military force to save lives.
Snapshot,
October 30, 2011
Beyond the Durban Climate Talks
Ruth Greenspan Bell, Barry Blechman, and Micah Ziegler

Even the biggest boosters of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hold out little hope that its next conference this November will achieve anything concrete. It is time to supplement such global meetings with more limited talks -- which have a better chance of success.
Response, Nov/Dec 2011
Point of Order
Amitai Etzioni; G. John Ikenberry

Before complaining about China’s refusal to buy into the liberal world order, argues Amitai Etzioni, the West should stop moving the goalposts by developing new norms of intervention, such as “the responsibility to protect.” G. John Ikenberry responds that Beijing already has more than enough inducement to sign up.
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