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U.S. Climate Policy: Hard or Soft Obstruction
(Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky will lead the U.S. delegation to the UN climate change conference next month in Bali. White...
How Do Americans View the World?
This week, I attended two fascinating briefings on how the American public is thinking about the world. The first was a press...
American and Russian Publics Favor Steps to Eliminate Nuclear Stockpiles
Last Friday, World Public Opinion.org released a poll exploring American and Russian opinion on nuclear weapons policy. Results reveal that the public...
The Weekly Gaff and John Warner’s Wisdom
This is the second "Weekly Gaff," a feature inspired by Frank Gaffney, who has engineered a campaign of misinformation in the pages...
Foreign Relations Committee Overwhelmingly Approves Law of the Sea; Coleman Flips and Flops
I just got back from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting on the Law of the Sea. The final vote was...
SFRC Passes Vital International Treaty
Washington, D.C. -- Citizens for Global Solutions commends the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) for its overwhelming passage of The U.N. Convention...
Inhofe: Retrofitting Unilateralism
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes tomorrow on the Law of the Sea. The Committee is likely to approve the treaty, as...
Correction – Biden Got it Right
I'd like to make a correction on my post this morning "Using U.N. Day to Sink the Law of the Sea". In...
Democracy, West Africa, and the U.N.
The National Democratic Institute hosted a terrific (and huge, and really long) lunch yesterday honoring the Fifty Fifty Group in Sierra Leone...
U.N. Day and President Bush…Feel the Love
Today, October 24, is United Nations Day. This day should remind all of us of our nation's important relationship with the only...
What Would Reagan Do?
Conservatives are asking What Would Reagan Do on the Law of the Sea. Personally, I don't care all that much and would...