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Conference of the Parties (COP) refers to meetings held under treaties in International Environmental Law. COP28 was a global climate meeting held by the United…
To protect the environment and conserve natural resources, environmental policy in the United States involves governmental actions taken at the federal, state, and local levels.…
On September 21st, 1949, revolutionary leader Mao Zedong proclaimed that “the Chinese people have stood up!” The declaration came following the Chinese “Century of Humiliation,”…
You may often hear on the news or in daily conversation words of pessimism about American power on the world stage. Many claim that the…
In 432 B.C., Pericles’ mighty Athenian Empire instituted the Megarian Decree – the first recorded instance of economic sanctions and a boycott as a foreign…