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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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May 7, 2012
Defense and Security
Hello, François Hollande: President of France
Streaks are made to be broken. After seventeen years on the outside looking in, a Socialist Party candidate has finally returned to the French presidency. François Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy b…
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…
March 26, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Hello (Ciao), Matteo Renzi: Prime Minister of Italy
When President Barack Obama stops in Rome tomorrow he will be meeting with a politician who can match his own meteoric rise to power: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Last month the thirty-nine-y…
May 12, 2008
Capital Flows
Sovereign Economic Development Funds ….
Sovereign funds argue that they are only interested in financial returns. And to be sure, they do care about financial returns. Losing money generally isn’t good for a sovereign fund’s long-term h…