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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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October 9, 2007
Financial Markets
Outsourced (the United States’ strong dollar policy)
Alan Ruskin of RBS Greenwich capital makes an important point in the Financial Times. The US has effectively outsourced its strong dollar policy to the emerging world. It isn't even clear that th…
August 4, 2014
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The USS Maddox was on alert on the evening of August 4, 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two nights earlier North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked it without warning. The Maddox had driven them off wi…
November 18, 2014
Tracking the Traffickers: The Need for Better Data
This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. In early 2014, an organization known as Elephants Without Borders began a project…
December 20, 2012
Fossil Fuels
The Five Most Influential Energy and Climate Studies of 2012
Ideas matter. Or at least Council on Foreign Relations fellows like to believe that: otherwise, we’d be wasting a lot of our time. With that in mind, I canvassed some of the smartest observers of the…
December 28, 2022
2022 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2022
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
