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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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December 15, 2015
United States
A Conversation With Mark Jones and Kellie Meiman Hock
This post features Mark P. Jones, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s political science fellow and Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin America Studies at Rice University, and Kellie Meim…
May 28, 2013
Energy and Environment
Challenges of Equitable Economic Development and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
The Belo Monte dam in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon basin has been at the center of controversy concerning hydropower infrastructure projects since protest of the project began in 2008. The confl…
December 10, 2004
United States
Dow Jones: Central banks do not seem to be dumping dollars
That’s the tag on p. C4 of the Wall Street Journal.The smart money -- and regular readers of this blog -- know that this is real question is not whether central banks are, in aggregate, dumping dolla…
April 30, 2014
United States
“Still Ours to Lead:” Bruce Jones Explains Why the World Still Looks to the United States
Manifestoes about U.S. “decline,” have become a publishing juggernaut. But this literature is demolished in a beautifully written, persuasive new book from Bruce Jones, the Brookings Institution seni…
September 8, 2023
Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Report Exposes Sexual Enslavement of Women by Eritrean Troops in Ethiopia
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers September 2 to September 8.
