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Robert Muggah

America Is the World's Gun Store

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

"US sales of lethal firearms aren’t just a domestic issue," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah in Foreign Policy.

Gold bullets in a pile on grey surface next to black magazine. Defense and Security

Nature-Based Solutions in Brazil Key to Global Climate Targets

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Thompson Reuters Foundation News
Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah examines why "nature-based solutions that revalue and protect forests" are among the best strategies for combatting climate warming.

An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest at the Bom Futuro National Forest near Rio Pardo in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil.
Reuters
Climate and the Environment

Unregulated US Firearms Are a Global Problem

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World Politics Review
Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah studies the global problem of unregulated US firearms, which are over 40 percent of all reported arms exports globally over the past five years.

An AR-15 rifles display at Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside, California.
Reuters
Global Cities

Brazil Is Gaslighting Its Way to a Climate Misinformation Catastrophe

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Washington Post
Robert Muggah

"The rampant spread of climate misinformation and disinformation has potentially dire implications for the Amazon Basin," cowrites Robert Muggah in the Washington Post.

Billows of smoke rise over a deforested plot of the Amazon jungle next to the Transamazonica national highway, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil
Reuters
Climate and the Environment

Bolsonaro Is Already Undermining Brazil’s Upcoming Election

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

"The populist president and his devotees are casting a dark cloud over the October vote," writes Robert Muggah.

Jair Bolsonaro waves in sunlight.
Reuters
Global Politics

Russia's Resource Grab in Ukraine

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

"Ukraine’s extraordinary riches in energy, minerals, and agriculture are a prize for the Kremlin," writes Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah in Foreign Policy.

A worker throws coal into the smelting furnace at a steel mill in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk
Reuters
Global Cities

Five Possible Scenarios in the Ukraine-Russia War

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iPolitics
Robert Muggah

"The international community is facing the most transformational development in Europe since the Second World War," writes Robert Muggah with Rafal Rohozinski.

Daffodils at a pro-Ukraine protest in London's Trafalgar Square
Alisdare Hickson
Defense and Security

Yemen's Parallel War in Cyberspace

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Persistent contact with fake news disrupts even stable societies—but in war zones, it can be lethal, Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah explains in Foreign Policy.

REUTERS
Global Politics

Climate Threats Are Multiplying in the Horn of Africa

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Rapid climate change has dangerous implications for unrest and conflict within and across the borders of the Horn of Africa, Robert Muggah states in Foreign Policy.

Two young boys carrying water walk down a road next to an IDP camp near the town of Jowhar, Somalia
Tobin Jones
Climate and the Environment

Maps Reveal Progress and Peril of Climate Change

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Singularity
Robert Muggah

Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah and Ian Goldin write how to map the changes civilization continues to make to the planet in Singularity.

Wide shot of earth's cities at night from space.
RecondOil
Climate and the Environment