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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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March 1, 2010
Economics
Brazil as an Emerging Power: The View from the United States
The United States has always seen Brazil as a significant regional powerhouse, but its perceived importance has risen in the last decade. Due to Brazil’s economic strength, its hemispheric leadership…
April 1, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
The Global Debate Over Illegal Drugs Heats Up
Having been frozen for four decades, a long-deferred debate over the "war on drugs" is finally heating up. Ever since the Nixon administration, the dominant paradigm informing U.S. and global policy …
July 26, 2012
Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Romney Travels, Mercosur Meets, EU Catches Flak, and Apple and Samsung Battle
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Mitt Romney’s foreign trip; Mercosur’s special summit in Rio; anger at the EU’s efforts to make foreign airlines pay for their greenhous…
August 31, 2016
Brazil
Political Fault Lines in Post-Rousseff Brazil
After nearly nine months, Brazil’s impeachment drama is over. The process ended on a curiously subdued note: the Senate’s questioning of Dilma Rousseff on Monday was a staid affair, and Tuesday’s spe…
March 17, 2016
Brazil
Do Brazil’s Street Protests Spell the End for Rousseff?
Brazil’s drama has escalated at breakneck speed. On March 4, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was detained for questioning. On March 8, construction magnate Marcelo Odebrecht was sentenced …
