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October 21, 2024

Climate Change
Securing the Future: Navigating the Nexus of Climate and Defense

Panelists discuss the intersection of climate change and national security, the emerging challenges for defense, and how the U.S. military is adapting to address these evolving threats.  

Play U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, deployed during Exercise Trident Juncture 18, hike to a cold-weather training site inland in Iceland, October 19, 2018
Event by Meredith Berger, Sherri Goodman, Varun Sivaram, and Raj Kumar Energy Security and Climate Change Program

December 11, 2018

South Africa
South Africa's New Director of Public Prosecutions

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa selected Shamila Batohi to the new national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) for a single ten-year term. As NDPP, Batohi will head the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which, as its name implies, determines who to prosecute and who not to prosecute on behalf of the state. 

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Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

January 24, 2015

United States
What the Pentagon Wants in a New AUMF: Perpetual Warfare

During his State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress “to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against ISIL [Isl…

Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

November 8, 2024

United States
Transition 2025: Donald Trump Won the Presidency. Now He Needs to Staff His Administration

Each Friday, I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Presidential transitions are complicated affairs, especially when power passes f…

Trump Delivers Election Victory Speech on Wednesday Morning, November 6
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

February 25, 2014

Cuba
U.S.-Cuba: American Public Opinion Today

This roundtable presented and analyzed the results of a national, bipartisan poll conducted by the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, tracking public opinion and attitudes in the…

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January 1, 2006

Homeland Security
Targets for Terrorism: Information Infrastructure

This publication is now archived. What is information infrastructure?A network of computers and communication lines underlying critical services that American society has come to depend on: financial…

Backgrounder by cfr.org editorial staff Editorial Staff