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EMU Professor Urges Shift in Iraqi, Afghan Strategy
A Fixable Problem for Our Society
The Ugly Reality Of Islamophobia (And How Catholics Should Stand Up Against It)
Congress Must Tax Fossil Fuels
The Saudis and the Iranians Need to Talk: And we need to make it happen
Reimagining Transitional Justice in Bali
Politics and Language: Dimension Beyond Words
A third intifada is inevitable unless Israel changes course
9/11 Forever (and Ever)
Teach, model, grow and live in empathy to build world peace, says interfaith expert Marc Gopin at Frontier Luncheon
Hurricane Sandy: Time to do something about climate change
Post-Election Ferguson: Bipartisan Congress to Demilitarize Police
Realising peace potential of constitution
Hong Kong's 'Occupy': A movement for universal suffrage in Hong Kong is worrying Beijing
UN Summit Already Successful: $50 Billion Divested From Fossil Fuels
Unholy Media Malpractice: The press totally missed the point of Bernie Sanders' trip to the Vatican.
When soldiers commit murder
The Business Argument for Addressing Climate Change
Businesses Must Take the Lead on Climate-Change Action
UN climate change negotiations in Poland this week
What Pope Francis Will Say to America This Week
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Why defeating ISIS with military might is starry eyed idealism
Cyclone Pam Is Just the Start
Sorry, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Rohingya Crisis Is No Laughing Matter
Free West Papua: Growing International Solidarity for a Forgotten Independence Movement
Meat Alert
Africa Needs More from Obama than Promises
How the U.S. Deals With a Land Known for Corruption
The Current of Discord on the Mekong
The Ottoman Experience in Mosul, Then and Now
Hottest Year on Record, 2014, Brings Economic Opportunity
Syrian Ramadan at the Edge of War
The 2017 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is ISIS an Existential Threat to the United States?
Rituals of Gendered Violence: School Girl Kidnappings in Nigeria
The Missing Ingredient in UN's 2030 Global Goals
How Germans Go Green
Europe Must Help Syria’s Women Make Peace
Darfur Donor Conference: A Park for a Deadly Conflict
Ethiopian Ruling Coalition Wins Majority of Parliament Seats
Why Did Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Go to Iraq?
Why Congress Should Care About the Beepocalypse | Commentary
How Peer Pressure Brought Australia on Board Climate Fund
Police Militarization Must Be Halted
Keeping Iran and Saudi Arabia From War
An 'Afghan Summer' of revolt - Part 2
Blessed Are the Climate Advocates
یەریڤان سەعید، توێژەر لە پەیمانگای وڵاتانی كەنداو لە واشنتۆن:
Libya: A failed state or a failed government?
Hurricane Joaquin: Another Word for Climate Change
Stop the ISIS War Before It Gets Worse!
Because National Governments Won't, Cities Are Pushing Zero-Energy Buildings
Can the Tribes of NATO help the Tribes of Afghanistan?
Terrorism and Development
Global Mayors Protest Trump’s Anti-Climate Cabinet
Why the Kerry-Karzai Afghan Security Deal Won't Work
Why World Leaders Are Starting to Eat Garbage
Ghailani Trial and Sentence Affirms US Federal Court System
Syria's Next Generation
Resolute in uncertain times: peacebuilding in the new US administration
Obama Thinks Too Small on Climate Change
Obama Arrives in Kenya, on Personal and Official Journey
Turkey’s Kurdish peace process: dead end – part 1
What the Flint Crisis Reveals About Inequality in the U.S.
Shank and Powell: Climate Change Fight Includes Private Sector
Myanmar Fighting Poses Dilemma for China
The Path To Clean Energy Requires An Energy-Storage Revolution
Doing away with food deserts in the District
Bring Russia out of the cold and into the fold
Firing Up Kurdish Nationalism in Iraq
Roads: Getting Them Done
Fayetteville Charity Helps African Group
More record warmth means more flooding: Column
The Future of Kurdistan, Between Unity and Balkanization
Congress Can't Ignore Afghanistan in Budget Talks
Confronting Homeland Security's 'SSSS' Watch List
Washington Area Students Weigh in on South Sudan Conflict
Bosnia Back on the Brink: Ukraine can learn from Bosnia's failed socioeconomic policies
Anti-immigration Legislation Makes Cities and Citizens Less Safe
The Price of Abandoning Yemen
Why Forest Whitaker Is Making the UN Goals Famous
Anticipating the Syria of Tomorrow: Strategies to Decrease Violence Against Innocents
Turkey's Best Asset to Tackle ISIS: Ankara or America?
Bucolic Peekskill under attack: View
Why U.S. Could Opt For 'Zero Option' In Afghanistan
Why US and Chinese cities will make or break any global climate deal
Indian Point: Past Its Expiration Date
Don't forget Malaysia
Voices: In midst of war, life goes on for Syrian kids
Pro-Earth Republicans In The Era Of President Trump
How Climate Change Sparked the Crisis in Syria
Data show drone attacks doomed to fail against ISIS in Syria
Divestment-Investment Can Break Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change
Water shortages are coming. It's time for us to act.
To finally see the invisible Israelis before our eyes
Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Politics and the city – the battle over Istanbul’s Gezi park
Deadly challenge of keeping Syria health-care workers safe
Tariq Ramadan in Chicago's Holocaust Museum
Embracing Healthier Communities Through Clean Energy
Palestine: Still key to stability in the Middle East
Climate Change Is An Immediate Threat
A look at the American 'Countering Violent Extremism' strategy
Addressing DC's truancy epidemic
Texas flood's climate change irony: Column
Lawmakers in Washington increasingly concerned about Ethiopia
Crimean Tatars fear exile again
Europe’s Migration Crisis: Causes and Cures
Go After Super Pollutants
Who to Blame for the Absence of a Kurdish State after Sykes Picot?
Our Love-Hate Relationship With Frankenstorms and Hurricane Sandy and Why We Must End It
Politics Unusual
‘Strength through peace – not peace through strength’: a reaction to Trump’s America First foreign policy
Time to write the rules for cyber and drone challenges
Climate Action Is Solution to Slowing Superstorms | Commentary
Don't Let China Dominate: When it comes to renewable energy, China is trumping the U.S.
What Do We Mean When We Say "Clean Energy"?
Why Qaddafi's Death Is Significant
Saudi in Yemen; It’s personal now
Meryl Streep is right; bullying hurts us all
Climate crisis and the will to act
Settler Terrorism -- An American Problem
We can only hope that the cerebral will get the better of the visceral
Only Good Governance can Defeat Al Qaeda in Yemen
How to Fix Turkey's Fall From International Favor
Letter to the Editor: Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Armenian, Azeri experts' Karabakh settlement recommendations
Mason’s Michael Shank Joins White House Climate Change Group
Turkey’s Kurdish peace process – framework law – part 2
Behind the Headlines: Israeli Arab's Water Project May Aid Regional Cooperation
Fighting extremism: Dignity is the answer
Congressmen urge Egypt to release Virginia woman from jail
America Must Rethink the War on Terror: The Authorization for Use of Military Force needs to be modified to avoid mission creep
USDA Does Diets Differently, Moves Off Meat
ما هي خلفية اشتعال القومية الكردية في العراق؟
Civility: The Way We Drive
The Emperor’s new clothes – bluster in the GOP
Yemen’s a Model All Right—For Disaster
The Obama administration ignores an American imprisoned in Egypt
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
The ISIS takeover of Ramadi means hard choices face the Iraqi and US governments
How one liberal group is trying to help Democrats win back the House in 2018
Mason’s Global Problem Solving Consortium in National Spotlight
I Was a Palestinian Stone-thrower. Here's Why I Stopped
The Audacity of Air Strikes and Secret Deals: Just making Isis grow stronger?
Essay on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement هل العرب أمام سايكس بيكو جديدة؟
Netanyahu's Kennedy moment
Insights Obama can now use to undermine Putin’s narrative
Why Washington is wrong to impose visa suspension on Iraqis
Congress vs. the Super-Pollutants
Final Frontier on Carbon Emissions: Food
Man-to-man chat can avert disaster
Proof Nuclear Energy Is a Huge Security Risk
Peace – practical, not fanciful
Will Saudi Arabia's 'Operation Decisive Storm' restore order in Yemen?
Expect Resource Wars With Exxon CEO At State Helm
Fed Up With Climate Change Apathy
Gulf Nations Can Provide Jobs, Which Is Crucial to Syrian Refugees
Mason Professors, Graduates Take Active Role in Latin American Conflicts
Land Rights Have Become A Women's Issue Through Social Mobilization In Cambodia
Beijing Encroaching on Moscow’s Military Dominance in Tajikistan
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Students Named Boren Fellows
Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit
Promoting peace, locally and globally
The NYC Security Risk That Candidates Aren't Discussing
We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
Fragility Needs Innovative Development Financing
Afghans Failing Security Test In Badakhshan
Climate change denial — the dangerous lie
After Nearly Three Years, An American In Egypt Walks Free
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
Dirty Energy Dollars
My Turkish Airport
Why We Heart Hurricanes: The Climate Change Connection
Britain’s election results may prove to be a blow to US foreign policy goals
The inclusion of women in the peacemaking process
Sign a Drone Treaty Before Everyone Does as We Do
Fossil Fuel Divestment Makes UN Climate Summit a Success
Ending the Exploitation of People and the Planet
Equality in action: A conversation at the checkpoint
CPCS Hosted Conference in Washington D.C.
Feckless on Foreign Policy
Why the White House Won't Win the Afghanistan War
Congress Better Listen to the Pope on Climate Change
Search – Côte d’Ivoire wins the Prize of Excellency
Yemen Can't Do It Alone
How to fix our police departments
The Time For Leadership To Protect All Civilians Across Syria
The Struggle for Independence in West Papua
Mason/EMU alum Michael Shank works with media to tell the story of climate change
Palestine's Right to Defend Itself
Nato should negotiate a security structure that includes Russia
Republicans want to fight climate change, too
Activists: Release of Detainees in Syria Crucial to Peace Process
The only way forward on Syria
Slavery and Climate – There's More in Common Than You Think, Vatican Says
Keeping USAID: why the US shouldn’t cut off its nose
How to Pull Yemen Back from the Edge
The Noxious Origins of NYC Gentrification: Cooking Gas
Protecting America's Clean Drinking Water
The Impact of the Syrian Civil War on Identity Groups in Turkey
Awakening the Demons: There is no Arab Spring coming to Iraq. But sectarian protests could tear this fragile country apart.
Evolving policy in a changing world: Examining challenges and opportunities in the new US Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Iraqi Kurdistan fears Maliki returning to power
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis: The way to respond to Russia is not with Cold War rhetoric
'Delenda Carthago': ISIS, threat and recovery
Responding to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is Religious Freedom the Answer?
Is the Spirit of Sykes-Picot Still Alive in the Middle East after a Century?
The anatomy of an anti-Taliban uprising
David N. Cicilline and Michael Shank: Global warming threatens R.I.
It's the Arab spring for dictators
'Ceasefire' Is the Syria Word We Need to Hear
Rep. Charles Rangel: Let's slow down the next superstorm
Why Congress Needs to Act Now On Super-Pollutants
UVA Gives Diversity Awards to Longtime Professors McDowell and Dukes
On 10th Anniversary of Afghan War, Time to Exit Militarized US Foreign Policy
Vietnam and Great Power Rivalries
خبير في النزاعات الدولية: ترامب سيبيع الورقة السورية لبوتين (حوار)
Five Steps America Must Take Now to Combat Climate Change
Mason Student Studies Emerging Protest Culture Over Land Rights Conflicts in Cambodia
Tragedy & Triumph
Death to America in Yemen? No.
Open letter to President-elect Trump and government officials at all levels
Collaboration with China is preferable to containment
Can Obama Influence Ethiopia on Human Rights, Democracy?
Why Americans Are Ready to Pay More Money for Cleaner Energy
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