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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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April 1, 2000
China
China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control
Few challenges loom as large on the U.S. foreign policy agenda as the effective management of relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a perennial challenge, given China's central…
July 11, 2017
Energy and Environment
Interactive: Oil Exporters' External Breakeven Prices
The 2014 fall in global oil prices, from over $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel, reduced the export proceeds of the world’s main oil- and gas-exporting economies by about $1 trillion. After a deca…
July 11, 2017
Fossil Fuels
Using External Breakeven Prices to Track Vulnerabilities in Oil-Exporting Countries
The best single measure of the resilience of an oil- or gas-exporting economy in the face of swings in the global oil price is its external breakeven price: the oil price that covers its import bill…
October 19, 2016
Northeast Asia
The Return of the East Asian Savings Glut
Overview The combined savings of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the two city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore is about 40 percent of their collective GDP, a thirty-five-year high. No other regi…
August 25, 2022
West Africa
Preventing Conflict in Coastal West Africa
The Global Fragility Act allows the United States to encourage greater stability in Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo over the next ten years, argues Eric Silla, though it will be contentio…
