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Post by Nathan Smith This post is linked to this book project, see Googledocs version here. I argued in a recent post that “the modern borders regime was designed to secure international peace,” and since, in fact, the post-WWII...

At Georgetown University, Gaston Hall Washington, D.C. Wednesday November 20, 2013 “America’s Future in Asia” Thank you, Victor, for all your exceptional work to advance American policy toward Asia -- from your time on the NSC staff...

Water wars? The story below is yet another "resources running out" story and as silly as most.  There are two obvious replies to the scare:  One in Australia and one in Israel. Australia is an unusually dry country on the whole, though there are some...

The following is based on the Monash Richard Larkins Oration given by Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University last night in Melbourne. You can read and listen to our In Conversation interview with Professor Borysiewicz...

It is hard for environmental news to garner world headlines, but last week one piece of devastating information managed to do just that - the news that the Great Barrier Reef was dead. It all started with a tongue-in-cheek obituary by Outside magazine...