ISIS
Behind the Syrian war, al-Qaida and ISIS fight for control of jihadi movement
“What ISIL has done is to accomplish some of the things, at an earlier stage in that organization’s development, than al-Qaeda was able to.”
Epoch Times
“What ISIL has done is to accomplish some of the things, at an earlier stage in that organization’s development, than al-Qaeda was able to.”
Epoch Times
At the Paris climate talks, where ministers are hammering out an international deal to curb climate change, two huge debates remain unresolved: the long-term global warming target and the amount and nature of finance that will flow to poor countries.
Hiroshima, Prison Reform in National Geographic
Prison Reform in National Geographic
President Obama “struggles where military resolve is required in the face of adversity. He often impatiently backs away and dismisses the efficacy or need to counter the threat.”
Venezuela Election in Foreign Policy
State of the Union, Venezuela Election
Thirty years ago, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened in Geneva for talks that helped usher in the end of the Cold War. Duke alumnus Jack Matlock (’50), the final United States ambassador to the Soviet Union who now teaches at Duke, recalls the summit.
Duke Today
Holly Ackerman, librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a Studies who studies migrant flows, says Cuban migration was “becoming more and more like the European situation.”
the New York Times
Graduate students in Duke’s UN Climate Change Negotiations Practicum are taking part in the COP21 climate talks in Paris and blogging about their experiences.
Nicholas School of the Environment