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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 22, 2016
Europe and Eurasia
More Europe, Less Europe, or a Different Europe
Experts assess the prospects for deepening European integration, the potential for a possible Brexit, and the possibility of revamping EU institutions.
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…
July 28, 2011
Economic Crises
Global Aftershocks of a U.S. Debt Default
A protracted debt default would have serious global repercussions, but even without a default, a likely downgrade of U.S. debt and the absence of a fiscal reform plan are weakening the U.S. and unset…
July 17, 2007
Iraq
U.S. and Iraqi Conceptions of Reconciliation
The Interim Report The interim surge report underscores the chasm that separates US and Iraqi conceptions of reconciliation. For Americans, reconciliation signifies a bargaining process through whic…
December 4, 2003
China
China Expert Says Taiwan Issue Raising Problems in U.S.-China Relations
Elizabeth C. Economy, the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that when President Bush and China’s new prime minister, Wen Jiabao, meet nex…