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Travel restrictions are a popular way to punish foreign leaders.
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[caption id="attachment_71942" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right,
John Bolton talks tough on the U.N. What’s his record really like?
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[caption id="attachment_18919" align="aligncenter" width="620"] U.S. soldiers patrol near Afghanistan's Kandahar
The threat or promise of justice in Palestine
On July 6, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a
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There is a pretty strong consensus that the UN Convention on
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It now looks almost certain that the Palestinian President, Mahmoud
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Jay Ulfelder has a nice critique of pieces by David
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I am about to fly to Montreal for the 2011
Obama’s Endorsement and UN Security Council Reform
President Obama scored some brownie points today when he publicly