“Parties should respond to an election by considering how to be the choice of more of the voters. But lessons are hard to learn in politics, and our parties today are exceptionally weak institutions. Under these conditions, the plausible but dangerously wrong lessons of 2022 may well be, for the right, a more palatable authoritarianism, and for the left, a new complacency,” writes Vanessa Williamson.
For the last decade, Hezbollah has focused its energies on helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad win the country’s civil war. As that conflict winds down with Assad secure in power, Hezbollah is being pulled in many competing directions. Daniel Byman examines the different theaters in which the Lebanese group operates.
Although climate change is a worldwide phenomenon, poor people and poor countries are more severely affected by its negative effects. For policymakers around the world to take appropriate action, they must understand the nexus between climate, conflict, fragility, and development. In a new working paper, Landry Signé and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye highlight key steps that must be taken for an effective and just climate adaptation.
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