- Manta rays and sharks get new protections, CITES closes on a hopeful note
- Yet new slaughter of elephants in Chad
- Black market for sea cucumbers in Mexico, driven by demand in China
- Oh yeah, Senate passes measures restricting NSF funding for study of democracy (cuz that’s not important), NSF can only fund study of issues germane to national security so we’re okay (just kidding)
- Will Obama use Nixon-era NEPA to fight climate change and/or is he prepared to delay rules for new coal plants
- Theda Skocpol reflects on what we can learn from failed 2009-2010 cap-and-trade climate fight and suggests in Foreign Policy climate change legislation cannot happen without Obama “going public” (though maybe legislation isn’t the way to go…)
- U.S. worries about Islamists’ gaining a stronghold after France leaves Mali, trains Africa troops but will it work?
- DRC rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, indicted by the ICC, surrenders to US Embassy in Kigali
- King Abdullah of Jordan gives candid interview that slags off regional leaders (additional commentary here)
- NPR interview with Richard Perle on the Iraq War 10 years later; in Foreign Policy, 10 numbers that capture the Iraq War including $1.7 trillion pricetag
- Leading Chinese solar firm goes bankrupt
- China’s image abroad suffers
- Unexpected discoveries at SXSW, Diamond Rings and the Lone Bellow
Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.
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