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U.N. Friends Silent on Foreign Ops
Yesterday, on an 81 to 12 vote, the Senate passed the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of...
Foreign Ops: Go with the Senate Numbers
This week the Senate is taking up the State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations bill. In two key areas, contributions to international...
One Step Forward on Darfur?
UN SG Ban Ki-Moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir just announced that Sudan would be meeting with the Darfur rebels in Libya...
Ensign Looking to Leave Troop-Contributing Allies Out to Dry on Peacekeeping Funds
Senator John Ensign just proposed a major cut to U.S. contributions to UN peacekeeping on the Senate floor. Just last month, with...
Wiki-rific Foreign Policy Development Tool
If you haven't done so already, do yourself a a big favor and check out U.S. Policy World, a project of Foreign...
Ban in Darfur
The BBC is covering UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's important trip to Darfur/Sudan. The fact that he has taken the time to...
Human Rights Challenges
It has been an interesting couple of days here at the WFM. I have been part of some wide ranging discussions on...
Law of the Sea on the Move
It hasn't been announced publicly yet, but look for the first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the Law of the Sea...
‘Scramble for the Arctic’
As my colleague Scott Paul has written on numerous occasions (here and here and here), it is important for the U.S. Senate...
NOAA Planning Arctic Mapping Expedition
Hm. NOAA is undertaking a mission to map out areas to claim in the American extended continental shelf. Of course, unless the...
Progressive Globalism for the 21st Century
If the old adage holds true that every crisis creates an opportunity, the current state of U.S. foreign policy -- combined with...