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Diplomatic Games on UN Security Council Expansion September 24, 2024

Some topics never die at the United Nations. Calls to expand and reform the Security Council is one of those persistent issues. An amendment increasing its size was adopted only once in 1965. But calls for further expansion were raised again only a f...

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‘Ending in Rabat’: France's Moroccan Pivot and the Future of Western Sahara September 09, 2024

A saying oft repeated in discussions of French diplomacy stipulates that “a French president's mandate begins in Algiers and ends in Rabat.” This axiom has proven strikingly prescient. Consider the letter French President Emmanuel Macron recently sen...

Biden-Harris Betrayal: Weak and Woke on the World Stage September 09, 2024

I first met Joe Biden over a quarter century ago when I was a senior aide in the US Senate, and then-Senator Biden was halfway through his fifty-year tenure in Washington. Although a Democrat, he was close friends with my two Republican bosses, Senat...

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