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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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February 25, 2013
Politics and Government
Hello, Park Geun-hye: President of South Korea
Glass ceilings are made to be broken. And today Park Geun-hye smashed one when she became the first woman to be sworn in as president of South Korea. Park defeated her left-of-center opponent, Moon J…
December 8, 2011
International Organizations
Surprising International Human Rights Consensus
An anti-government protester attends a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa November 13, 2011. (Louafi Larbi/ Courtesy Reuters) 2011 was an extraordin…
December 2, 2011
You Might Have Missed: Cyber Attacks, Syria, and Donald Rumsfeld
US President Bush escorts Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from the Oval Office in Washington on August 11, 2006 (Courtesy Reuters/Kevin Lamarque). - Sari Horwitz, Shyamantha Asokan, and Julie Tate, “T…
April 23, 2012
Conflict Prevention
Understanding Illicit Networks
We all know that, in recent decades, businesses have internationalized their operations like never before, but a less well-known result of globalization is that transnational criminal enterprises hav…
December 21, 2008
Monetary Policy
The central bank flight to safety
Floyd Norris of the New York Times highlights a theme that I have touched on many times: foreign demand for US assets with any hint of credit risk has disappeared. Foreign demand for US corporate …
