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Stewart M. Patrick is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (where he writes the blog The Internationalist) and Director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
How the real caveman diet will help meet our global food needs. More »
As the developing world urbanizes and its slums swell, the number of people affected by natural disasters is increasing. More »
Opinion polls also find that only 8 percent of Americans are willing to accept a nuclear Iran. More »
Can Presidents Obama and Putin find a UN Security Council resolution they can both live with? More »
The Syrian crisis meets some, but not all, of the criteria for a "right to protect" intervention. More »
Most of the world follows the convention and the U.S. signed it years ago, but some conservative members of Congress are still blocking it. More »
It won't solve Syria or world hunger, but the Obama-hosted meeting of world leaders can still take on some major issues. More »
What happens when demand for this essential resource starts exceeding supply in many parts of the world? More »
Some ideas for giving emerging economies a fighting chance against the resource curse. More »
Economics alone don't tell us much about people's wellbeing, but the leaders of Bhutan think they have a better way. More »
It's not just bad policy. With popular support for the programs, it's bad politics as well. More »
As the president says, the UN is "indispensable" but "flawed" and badly in need of improvement. More »
The world is making important strides in basic freedoms and rights More »
Despite intransigence from China and the U.S. -- the world's two leading polluters -- the Durban conference can still do some good More »
Like the U.S.-European Atlantic Charter of 1941, a "Pacific Charter" could help establish the U.S. as an Eastern power More »
Ideas for the G-20 meetings in Cannes today More »
A new book furthers the trend of worried "new sovereigntists," but global institutions are hardly the threat to U.S. democracy that they claim More »
Sub-Saharan states have made real progress in building their own security. Here's how they can do even better and how the United States can help More »
World Bank head Robert Zoellick sees a tomorrow in which developing countries wield more power, societies succeed or fail as they empower women, and development moves beyond aid More »
The president will need to prevent U.S. diplomatic isolation in the wake of the Palestinian statehood bid and reassure the world that congressional myopia will not derail his administration's productive reengagement with the world body More »
