September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The United States can curb its own emissions and encourage energy effeciency and the development of clean-energy technology worldwide by rethinking carbon regimes.
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August 21, 2008
Daily Analysis
Development experts have long lamented the negative effects of brain drain on Africa. Some economists now argue the benefits outweigh the costs.
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August 10, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Richard Holbrooke and Laurie Garrett, write about the concept of “viral sovereignty,” an “extremely dangerous idea” that asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations. Fueled by self-destructive, anti-Western sentiments, this concept is slowly gaining traction and poses a real threat to global health.
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July 30, 2008
Essential Documents
Act
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July 30, 2008
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
Laurie Garrett argues that our focus in the fight against AIDS should not be to create a multibillion dollar industry that only treats the disease. Instead, our resources need to be geared towards finding a long-term cure that can stop the spread of the virus permanantly.
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July 30, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
The passage of the President’s Plan for AIDS Relief has highlighted the ability of Congressmen such as Joe Biden and Tim Coburn to work towards bipartisan progress in a branch of government that is otherwise overwhelmed by cynicism and bitterness, writes Michael Gerson.
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July 2008
Essential Documents
Report
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July 1, 2008
Interview
Don Oberdorfer, an expert on the two Koreas, says the recent street protests ostensibly against the import of U.S. beef are much more political protests against the new conservative government in Seoul.
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June 30, 2008
Must Read
As China rebuilds from the great quake, a changed country is emerging with some surprising winners and losers.
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June 30, 2008
Backgrounder
A primer explaining the various factors pushing up global food prices, from energy prices to market speculation.
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Elections (3/22): Israeli politics expert David Makovsky tells cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman next week's vote will likely bring a coalition goverment to power led by the centrist Kadima Party.
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Democratic Convention (8/27): Michael Gerson argues that Barack Obama should use this historic moment to address America's divisions, in the Washington Post.
Presidential Campaign (8/25): Amity Shlaes writes that in America, politics is a contest between hope and fear, on Bloomberg.com.
China (8/25): Max Boot argues that Eastern European countries can deter aggression from Russia by bolstering their defense spending, in the Wall Street Journal.
Democracy Promotion (8/22): James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet point out that an agenda of promoting democracy is facing more and more resistance from both sides of the aisle, in the Huffington Post.
China (8/21): Jerome Cohen writes that the Olympics have shed light on many negatives about the Chinese government, in the South China Morning Post.
This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.
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In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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