This week's special UN session on the global drug problem is unlikely to bring a major shift in international policy, but it may widen the counternarcotics conversation, write CFR's Stewart Patrick and Theresa Lou.
CFR Global Memo Time for a New Paradigm in Drugs
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CFR Backgrounder Mexico's Drug War
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UN-sponsored talks aim to bring peace after more than a year of Saudi-led intervention has failed to eject Houthi rebels from the capital. This Backgrounder explains the conflict's causes and mounting toll.
Around the Web: WSJ UN-Brokered Peace Talks Delayed
Around the Web: Reuters Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen Has Made al-Qaeda Stronger
Around the Web: Sarah Leah Witson U.S. Quietly Helping Saudi Arabia Wage Devastating Campaign
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U.S. health officials have confirmed a link between the Zika virus and birth defects. This Backgrounder looks at the virus's spread throughout the Americas.
Primary Source: CDC Zika Causes Microcephaly and Other Birth Defects
Media Call: Laurie Garrett Global Efforts to Combat the Zika Virus
Around the Web: Atlantic The Obama Administration’s Zika Offensive
A new genetic technology has the potential to cure diseases and boost plant, insect, and human lives, but it also poses profound ethical questions, writes CFR's Laurie Garrett.
Around the Web: Wired Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.
Around the Web: New Yorker CRISPR and the Gene Hackers
Around the Web: Ensia CRISPR Is Coming to Agriculture
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Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea, including its island-building efforts, is pushing many of its neighbors to closer ties with the United States, writes CFR's Stewart M. Patrick.
Foreign Affairs: Michael H. Fuchs How to End the South China Sea Crisis
CFR Report The Pivot in Southeast Asia
CFR Event A Conversation With Ash Carter
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Adam Segal reveals the ways that governments use the web to wage war and spy on, coerce, and damage each other.
In a cogent analysis of why the United States is losing ground, Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris explore the statecraft of geoeconomics.
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