United Nations

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Podcast Episode

What happened at the UN climate change summit?

William Burke-White and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 16, 2019

Climate Change

Accelerating the low carbon transition

David G. Victor, Frank W. Geels, and Simon Sharpe

Monday, December 9, 2019

Power-generating windmill turbines form a wind farm on Backbone Mountain near Thomas, West Virginia August 28, 2006. While growth in ethanol use as an alternative fuel has had a big impact on rural America, wind power has also been growing steadily for the past three years, with wind farms like this one springing up all over the windy expanse of the Great Plains and beyond. To match feature ENVIRONMENT-USA/WIND. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES) REUTERS - GM1E45J1K9401

PlanetPolicy

Building an ambitious US climate policy from the bottom up

Nathan Hultman

Monday, December 9, 2019

Podcast Episode

What is the US doing on climate change?

Nathan Hultman and Adrianna Pita

Monday, December 2, 2019

Reports

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Climate Change

The Paris Agreement and its future

Todd Stern

October 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Report

Brookings experts on Trump’s UNGA speech

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Managing the new threat landscape

Bruce Jones, Charles T. Call, Daniel Toubolets, and Jason Fritz

September 2018

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Report

China’s long game on human rights at the United Nations

Ted Piccone

September 2018

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Report

Safeguarding the heavens: The United States and the future of norms of behavior in outer space

Frank A. Rose

June 2018

Blog Posts

A child writes with chalk on a wall to celebrate Shreepanchami festival at Saraswati temple in Kathmandu, Nepal February 1, 2017. Children are given their first writing and reading lessons at the temple during this festival in the belief that the goddess of education Saraswati will help them excel in education. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC197B507EC0

Future Development

People, places, and problems: Time for specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals

David Batcheck

Friday, October 25, 2019

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Africa in focus

Africa in the news: UNGA, Zimbabwe, and Sudan updates

Dhruv Gandhi

Saturday, September 28, 2019

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Future Development

Getting specific to leave no one behind

Homi Kharas and John McArthur

Monday, September 23, 2019

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Experts

Jeffrey Feltman

John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy - Foreign Policy

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Multimedia

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Climate Change

A global response to the climate crisis

Amar Bhattacharya, Samantha Gross, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 20, 2019

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Podcast Episode

What does a new UN report reveal about global hunger and obesity?

John McArthur

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Shi'ite fighters ride on the back of a truck with their weapons in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October 18, 2015. Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite militia fighters say they have retaken a mountain palace complex of former President Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces push ahead on a major offensive against the insurgents. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani - GF10000249718

Order from Chaos

Militias in the Middle East and North Africa: “It’s the governance, stupid!”

Jesse I. Kornbluth

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

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Reports

Leave no one behind: Time for specifics on the sustainable development goals

17 Rooms global flagship meeting

What’s next for Libya?

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Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World