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Time to rethink relations.

Of the many reasons that a slim minority of voters chose to elect a bombastic reality television star to be president of the United States, climate change was surely not high on the list. Nonetheless, Donald Trump assumed the office last week openly hostile to the environmental movement. He has threatened to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, gut the Barack Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, and cut funding for climate science research.

At what point does an extremist become a violent extremist? As the world - wakened by the recent terrorist attacks in Baghdad, Beirut, Paris, and now in California and London, too - struggles to defeat the Islamic State (also called ISIS), the answer is more important than ever.

The problem with Washington's planning obsession.

The message sent by the U.S. strike against Syria was ambiguous — and so it's misguided to assume that it will shape Bashar al-Assad's behavior.

Obama's signature international economic initiative is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but bipartisan majorities of both houses of Congress have insisted that the TPP forcefully address the manipulation of exchange rates. Here's how to resolve this dilemma.

In 1996, Ehud Barak, who was then Israel’s foreign minister and would later serve as prime minister, characterized Israel as “a modern and prosperous villa in the middle of the jungle.” Twenty years later, as political turmoil and violence engulf the Middle East, that harsh metaphor captures better than ever the way most Israelis see their country and its place in the region. Their standard of living has never been higher. Their country’s economy is robust, and Israel’s entrepreneurial spirit remains the envy of the world.

Venezuela’s opposition cannot oust Nicolás Maduro if it does not first break up the military-civilian alliance that is keeping him in power.

Demand for wildlife products drives an illicit trade in animals that gravely threatens global biodiversity and entire ecosystems. Campaigns to counter it usually focus on the environmental and moral problems that come with consuming these products. But lessons from public health campaigns suggest that consumers would be more responsive to warnings about the short-term risks wildlife products pose to their own health, prestige, or sexual prowess.

July 12, 2016, marked a turning point in the long-standing disputes over the South China Sea. After more than three years of proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international body in The Hague, a tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued a widely anticipated decision in a case the Philippines brought in 2013 to challenge China’s maritime claims to most of the contested waterway

At the end of World War II, the United Kingdom built memorials to every military branch save one.

Despite China’s recent economic struggles, many economists and analysts argue that the country remains on course to overtake the United States and become the world’s leading economic power someday soon. Indeed, this has become a mainstream view - if not quite a consensus belief - on both sides of the Pacific. But proponents of this position often neglect to take into account an important truth.

Despite all the grim predictions, the European Union is not on the verge of collapse. Quite the contrary: If European leaders act with resolve and persistence, the union could experience a rebirth.

Almost as soon as the financial crisis struck in late 2007, policy-makers began working to prevent another one. The roots of the crisis, they contended, lay in reckless lending and excess debt. Banks had made massive loans to “subprime” borrowers, who had little ability to repay them, and the banks funded these investments with borrowed money. When the US housing bubble burst, millions of Americans defaulted on their mortgages, and the overleveraged banks collapsed.

How to understand the economic impact of migration.

As Algeria and Sudan take their first tentative steps toward democracy, they can draw on lessons from Egypt's 2011 revolution to help keep their own transitions on track.

Hamas is becoming increasingly unpopular in Gaza. And the group itself is divided, with its moderate Politburo increasingly overshadowed by a hard-line military wing.

Banking is an inherently risky business, and the United States will, sooner or later, face another major financial crisis. Yet the tools policymakers have to respond are even weaker than they were before the last crash. Politicians should restore more discretion to financial firefighters, not as a substitute for strong safeguards, but as a complement to them.

To strengthen its economic power and extend its strategic influence during uncertain times, Washington must lead on global trade. If it doesn't, it will be left on the sidelines.

When Barack Obama joined other global leaders at the G-20 summit in Turkey, the United States was in the final stages of a multiyear effort to secure the approval of a set of important reforms to the International Monetary Fund. The reforms were designed to double the organization’s core financial resources to combat financial crises and to modernize its governance by increasing the voting shares of emerging-market economies while maintaining a decisive US voice.