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As the Ukrainian crisis escalates, President Barack Obama has been busy making the diplomatic rounds trying to build support against the unilateral attempts by Crimea to break away from the new government in Ukraine. President Obama said the United States is examining a series of economic and diplomatic steps to “isolate Russia,” and he called […]

Fast Forward – Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming is the title of a book just out from two international relations heavyweights at Brookings.  Strobe Talbott was deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration and William J. Antholis worked at the National Security Council and at State, and was director of […]