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Mason/EMU alum Michael Shank works with media to tell the story of climate change
Vision Series: Sandra Cheldelin to Discuss Women and Conflict
Don't Let China Dominate: When it comes to renewable energy, China is trumping the U.S.
Indian Point: Past Its Expiration Date
Hottest Year on Record, 2014, Brings Economic Opportunity
The Current of Discord on the Mekong
Nato should negotiate a security structure that includes Russia
Confronting genocide in Myanmar: The urgent need to prevent and protect
'Missing Histories': History Education and China-Japan Relations
Regionalization of Conflict and Opportunities for Peace in the Horn of Africa
Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention
How to stop Libya becoming another Iraq
Administrative Referendum: A wakeup call for the ethno-political conflict in Darfur
Darfur Donor Conference: A Park for a Deadly Conflict
Activists: Release of Detainees in Syria Crucial to Peace Process
Sign a Drone Treaty Before Everyone Does as We Do
Slavery and Climate – There's More in Common Than You Think, Vatican Says
Don't let Yemen turn into Syria: Column
U.S.-E.U. Rhetoric on Russia as Destructive as a Chekhovian Duel
ISIS attacks fueled by illegal guns and open societies we can’t afford to lose
Is Yemen’s power struggle over?
Europe Must Help Syria’s Women Make Peace
UN climate change negotiations in Poland this week
Evolving policy in a changing world: Examining challenges and opportunities in the new US Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Bush's true legacy in Egypt
Presidents must come together on East Asia
Ukraine crisis underscores need for renewables push
Hurricane Joaquin: Another Word for Climate Change
Cyprus: An EU Presidency occupied by Candidate Turkey
How Germans Go Green
Keeping Iran and Saudi Arabia From War
Free West Papua: Growing International Solidarity for a Forgotten Independence Movement
Insights Obama can now use to undermine Putin’s narrative
Water shortages are coming. It's time for us to act.
Why World Leaders Are Starting to Eat Garbage
Cyprus – the drama unfolds
The Audacity of Air Strikes and Secret Deals: Just making Isis grow stronger?
What Do We Mean When We Say "Clean Energy"?
U.S. Sanctions On Iran Should Be Lifted For Humanitarian Goods
Scholars skeptical on Japan apology
Can J Street Sideline AIPAC?
Pro-Earth Republicans In The Era Of President Trump
Why China’s New Rich Want to Emigrate
Yemen: Ripe for a solution?
Why the US must support bid for Palestinian statehood
Keeping USAID: why the US shouldn’t cut off its nose
Why Congress Needs to Act Now On Super-Pollutants
Analysis: Progressive policies provide answer for Sanders’ foreign policy gap
65 years after 'catastrophe,' Palestinians have little to cheer about
Author, Terrorism Victim Hirsch Says Capital Punishment Hurts U.S. Image Abroad
Resolute in uncertain times: peacebuilding in the new US administration
Chomsky Takes on the World (Bank)
Senators Welcome Release of Unjustly Imprisoned Egyptian-American Aya Hijazi
Why I'm Going to Yemen
Japan’s Remilitarization, Beating Ploughshares into Swords
Awakening the Demons: There is no Arab Spring coming to Iraq. But sectarian protests could tear this fragile country apart.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounces US calls for Aya Hegazy’s release
Congress vs. the Super-Pollutants
The Saudis and the Iranians Need to Talk: And we need to make it happen
Egypt frees U.S. charity worker Aya Hijazi from prison
Realising peace potential of constitution
Crimean Tatars Fear for Their Safety After Crimea’s Annexation to Russia
'Tribunal' Opens Hearings Into Mass Killings in Indonesia
Our Love-Hate Relationship With Frankenstorms and Hurricane Sandy and Why We Must End It
Tunisia’s Elections Seal Transition, Raise Fears of Old Regime
My Turkish Airport
Fed Up With Climate Change Apathy
Britain’s election results may prove to be a blow to US foreign policy goals
The Mother of Badly Timed Arms Sales
How China’s Economic Rebalancing is like the Movie 'Speed'
Why US and Chinese cities will make or break any global climate deal
Focus on Al Qaeda in Yemen magnifies chronic instability
Dirty Energy Dollars
Why Forest Whitaker Is Making the UN Goals Famous
Armenian, Azeri experts' Karabakh settlement recommendations
CPCS Hosted Conference in Washington D.C.
How the U.S. Deals With a Land Known for Corruption
There is a Major Climate Issue Hiding in Your Closet: Fast Fashion
Meat Alert
Is the OSCE relevant to Cyprus? Or is Cyprus irrelevant to the OSCE?
Fossil Fuel Divestment Makes UN Climate Summit a Success
Proof Nuclear Energy Is a Huge Security Risk
Doing Due Diligence on Diplomacy With Damascus
Land Rights Have Become A Women's Issue Through Social Mobilization In Cambodia
Why Should Israel Care What the Rest of the World Thinks?
Sorry, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya Crisis Is No Laughing Matter
How U.S. Ambassadors Influence China (But Not Americans)
Obama's Middle East Speech: The Message Was Not Received
Egyptian-American activist Aya Hegazi returns to US following Egypt court acquittal
Africa Needs More from Obama than Promises
Palestine: Still key to stability in the Middle East
Congress Must Tax Fossil Fuels
Don't Talk, Do Something! Palestinian/Israeli Unilateralism as Legitimate Negotiations
The Ottoman Experience in Mosul, Then and Now
America’s litmus test on Syria
Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit
Trump’s favorite dictator is jailing U.S. citizens
Ukraine Diplomatic Deal: Necessary Next Steps
A third intifada is inevitable unless Israel changes course
In fighting gangs, US should look to El Salvador
Hillary Clinton Asks Egypt’s President Sisi to Release Aya Hijazi
Interview: Zheng Wang
Texas flood's climate change irony: Column
Motives of suicide terrorists
It's the Arab spring for dictators
Why Congress Should Care About the Beepocalypse | Commentary
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria; Is This Really a Concern for the U.S.?
Comment: The Cyprus Challenge: A solution paradigm shift
Climate Change Is An Immediate Threat
Who to Blame for the Absence of a Kurdish State after Sykes Picot?
10 Syria Questions for John Kerry and Chuck Hagel
The effect of 100 years of amnesia on the Turkish population
Are Direct Negotiations Good or Bad for the Palestinians?
Settler Terrorism -- An American Problem
Washington’s rapprochement with Syria is welcomed but not enough
Why Hong Kong's #OccupyCentral Used Nonviolent Action as Tactic
Ending the Exploitation of People and the Planet
Collaboration with China is preferable to containment
Cyclone Pam Is Just the Start
Marginalizing Muslims in Switzerland
Expect Resource Wars With Exxon CEO At State Helm
China’s Foreign Policy Debates
Mason’s Michael Shank Joins White House Climate Change Group
Time to stop coddling Iran
The 2017 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is ISIS an Existential Threat to the United States?
Stop the ISIS War Before It Gets Worse!
Mason students discuss Islamophobia
Doing away with food deserts in the District
Republicans want to fight climate change, too
Shank and Powell: Climate Change Fight Includes Private Sector
Letter to the Editor: Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Oil Is At The Heart Of The Ukraine Crisis
Trump 'ordered Sisi' to release US-Egyptian charity worker
Embracing Healthier Communities Through Clean Energy
The Noxious Origins of NYC Gentrification: Cooking Gas
Achieving the mission: A conversation with UPEACE Vice Rector Amr Abdalla
After 900 days in pre-trial detention, campaigns call for release of Aya Hegazy
'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear
Bring Russia out of the cold and into the fold
Don't forget Malaysia
Why Did Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Go to Iraq?
Crimean Crisis Escalates Further
How Peer Pressure Brought Australia on Board Climate Fund
Why We Heart Hurricanes: The Climate Change Connection
What Aziz Abu Sarah learned in Hebrew school
The Impact of the Syrian Civil War on Identity Groups in Turkey
Five Steps America Must Take Now to Combat Climate Change
As Ethiopia votes, what’s ‘free and fair’ got to do with it?
Sudan, after the breakup: Can violence be prevented?
China and Japan REALLY Don’t Like Each Other
Final Frontier on Carbon Emissions: Food
Shank: White House, Congress Choosing Wrong Path on Iran
More record warmth means more flooding: Column
Essay on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement هل العرب أمام سايكس بيكو جديدة؟
Busting the Biofuels Boom
The Business Argument for Addressing Climate Change
Sorting Out Our Options in Afghanistan
Businesses Must Take the Lead on Climate-Change Action
As China’s Economy Falters, Military Parade Offers Chance to Burnish Image
Ineffective tightening of sanctions on Iran
UN Summit Already Successful: $50 Billion Divested From Fossil Fuels
UVA Gives Diversity Awards to Longtime Professors McDowell and Dukes
Politics and the city – the battle over Istanbul’s Gezi park
Death to America in Yemen? No.
A Grassroots Visit Belies Washington's View of Afghanistan
Cardin Meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister
Clash of Dreams: Becoming a ‘Normal Country’ in East Asia
Netanyahu’s address to Congress is a recipe for disaster, not peace
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
Divestment-Investment Can Break Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change
The NYC Security Risk That Candidates Aren't Discussing
Stop atrocities before they start
Working Abroad a Big Help on the Hill
Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Hong Kong's 'Occupy': A movement for universal suffrage in Hong Kong is worrying Beijing
Can Obama Influence Ethiopia on Human Rights, Democracy?
Court clears American aid worker after 3 years behind bars in Egypt
Roads: Getting Them Done
Obama’s speech was more of the same - and not what we needed
China and Japan engage neocortices
The Path To Clean Energy Requires An Energy-Storage Revolution
Turkmenistan cautiously opens to the world
American impotence and the ‘Born in Jerusalem’ law
Yemen Can't Do It Alone
‘Strength through peace – not peace through strength’: a reaction to Trump’s America First foreign policy
Crimean Tatars fear exile again
Climate Action Is Solution to Slowing Superstorms | Commentary
Netanyahu's Kennedy moment
Keeping the Keys: The Rise of the Palestinian Diplomatic Intifada
Letter to the editor: A response to "Immigration could swing it for Brexit"
Look to Iran for a solution in Syria
David N. Cicilline and Michael Shank: Global warming threatens R.I.
Trump got Egypt to free an American prisoner. Here’s her story.
The Bo Xilai Verdict: Everybody Wins
Congress Better Listen to the Pope on Climate Change
Lack of US-Syria Diplomacy Leads to Dangerous Isolation
Go After Super Pollutants
To save his Middle East legacy, Obama must recognise a Palestinian state now
Obama Thinks Too Small on Climate Change
Will Saudi Arabia's 'Operation Decisive Storm' restore order in Yemen?
EU Threat Has Inspired Panic Rather than Reform
Global Mayors Protest Trump’s Anti-Climate Cabinet
Donald Trump and the Politics of Personality: To Understand Trumpism, Look Abroad!
US must vote in favour or abstain
Using Israeli and Palestinian Guides, Tour Group Helps Visitors ‘Experience the People’
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Drones weaken USA's moral might: Opposing view
George Mason to cultivate global leaders
Behind the Headlines: Israeli Arab's Water Project May Aid Regional Cooperation
The Time For Leadership To Protect All Civilians Across Syria
Mason’s Global Problem Solving Consortium in National Spotlight
Mason Center Works Toward a Peaceful Future
American Aid Worker, Release Secured by Trump Officials, Leaves Egypt
Why Americans Are Ready to Pay More Money for Cleaner Energy
The Missing Ingredient in UN's 2030 Global Goals
Does China Have a Foreign Policy?
Arab Gulf States Wary of Iran’s Role in the Battle for Mosul
The Dangers of Soft Power: Government backed cultural programs often come across as just propaganda
USDA Does Diets Differently, Moves Off Meat
Lawmakers in Washington increasingly concerned about Ethiopia
Overnight Crimean Crisis Hits Stalemate
Europe’s Migration Crisis: Causes and Cures
Hurricane Sandy: Time to do something about climate change
Fighting extremism: Dignity is the answer
Donald Trump's Immigration Plan Would Ban One-Third of the World From the U.S.
Climate crisis and the will to act
The ISIS takeover of Ramadi means hard choices face the Iraqi and US governments
What Secretary Clinton Does Not Recognize About Egypt’s Anti-Regime Protests
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis: The way to respond to Russia is not with Cold War rhetoric
Rep. Charles Rangel: Let's slow down the next superstorm
9 Costs of Drone Strikes
Protecting America's Clean Drinking Water
Is the Spirit of Sykes-Picot Still Alive in the Middle East after a Century?
The Struggle for Independence in West Papua
Turkey's Best Asset to Tackle ISIS: Ankara or America?
Bible Texts Misused in Rumsfeld Reports, Religious Leaders Say
Bucolic Peekskill under attack: View
Mason Student Studies Emerging Protest Culture Over Land Rights Conflicts in Cambodia
Afghan civil society calls for just peace
The Price of Abandoning Yemen
Because National Governments Won't, Cities Are Pushing Zero-Energy Buildings
Learning from SIGIR's Final Report on Iraq Reconstruction
How to Fix Turkey's Fall From International Favor
Afghans Want U.S. to Stay but Do Things Differently
An American humanitarian worker goes on trial in Cairo. What’s next for Aya Hijazi?
China’s Puzzling ADIZ Decision Making
Columbia Prof Uses Math To Create World Peace
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
Man-to-man chat can avert disaster
What the Flint Crisis Reveals About Inequality in the U.S.
Palestine’s new PM and his prospects for success
Morocco a Stable East-West Bridge
Beijing Encroaching on Moscow’s Military Dominance in Tajikistan
Bosnia Back on the Brink: Ukraine can learn from Bosnia's failed socioeconomic policies
Obama Arrives in Kenya, on Personal and Official Journey
Beyer Statement On Acquittal of Aya Hijazi and Her Co-Defendants in Egypt
Civility: The Way We Drive
The Emperor’s new clothes – bluster in the GOP
Nonviolent resistance key to Middle East breakthrough
Congressmen urge Egypt to release Virginia woman from jail
Why Rep. Hunter Is Very Wrong About Nuking Iran
Climate change denial — the dangerous lie
Maltese neutrality still a brilliant idea
Sisters know a good road trip when they see one
Future of Crimean Tartar Muslims Hangs in the Balance
'Delenda Carthago': ISIS, threat and recovery
Obama must stand up to Netanyahu on Israeli settler violence
We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
Hillary Clinton’s Response to the Pulse Orlando Shootings
How Climate Change Sparked the Crisis in Syria
Blessed Are the Climate Advocates
Mason Professors, Graduates Take Active Role in Latin American Conflicts
The Chinese Dream From Mao to Xi
What Pope Francis Will Say to America This Week
When diplomatic opportunities were dismissed
Managing the Madness in the Middle East
Unholy Media Malpractice: The press totally missed the point of Bernie Sanders' trip to the Vatican.
Congress Should Scrutinize Pending Trade Pacts
Vietnam and Great Power Rivalries
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; Resolving Conflicts in the Caucasus
Feckless on Foreign Policy

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