An apocryphal story credits Einstein with saying that, if given an hour to solve a problem, he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem. Regardless of the attribution, the sentiment…
“Welcome to Zamboanga,” the mayor’s office greeted us as we arrived in the bustling city of some 900,000 in the south of the Philippines. The mayor’s aide went…
When Good Friday fell on April 10 this year, it was exactly twenty-two years to the day after Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement was signed. That watershed deal…
A photo that surfaced from January’s Berlin Conference on Libya shows an intense discussion between prominent heads of state—among them Angela Merkel, Emmanuel…
“The microbe that felled one child in a distant continent yesterday can reach yours today and seed a global pandemic tomorrow. How can we procrastinate any…
The Paris Climate Agreement strongly recognized the crucial role of forests for climate change mitigation, as global mitigation goals will require negative carbon emissions. Forest options for climate mitigation…
The sun may have set on the British Empire, but its shadow lingers over modern Britain’s foreign policy. Britain retains fourteen minor overseas territories worldwide, though its global…
Few areas have been the source of as much speculation, hype, and overgeneralization as the Arctic region at the start of the 21st century. Propelled to the top of the…
