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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 15, 2022
United States
Outbound Investment Screening Waits in the Wings
The thousand-page CHIPS bill avoided a new screening procedure for U.S. investments abroad, but it signals how industrial policy will likely be used to discourage American companies from investing in…
April 7, 2011
This Is NOT the Time to Clip America’s Global Wings
Elliott Abrams and Eliot Cohen at the Intelligence Squared debate on April 5, 2011. (Chris iVultaggio/Intelligence Squared Debates) Is it time to "clip America’s global wings?" That was the subject…
March 28, 2019
South Africa
Right-Wing White Party Releases Election Manifesto in South Africa
Looking to the May 8 elections, the party rolled-out its election manifesto in early March. Party leader Pieter Groenewald’s speech was mostly in Afrikaans and sounded themes to be found on the white and coloured right.
March 27, 2024
Humanitarian Intervention
When Non-Intervention Becomes a Dogma
Sometimes the only thing worse than foreign intervention is non-intervention.
January 22, 2024
Supply Chains
The President’s Inbox Recap: The Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping
Attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea pose significant challenges for the global economy.
February 27, 2006
Financial Markets
A butterfly flapped its wings in Iceland …
If you read the financial press closely, it was hard not to learn a bit about the Icelandic krona over the past week. The krona pays a high interest rate, you see - enabling Iceland to attract the …