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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 26, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Hello (Ciao), Matteo Renzi: Prime Minister of Italy
When President Barack Obama stops in Rome tomorrow he will be meeting with a politician who can match his own meteoric rise to power: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Last month the thirty-nine-y…
December 29, 2014
Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
January 18, 2008
Monetary Policy
The new (financial) world order
In 2007: China’s government added $430b to its foreign exchange reserves. Russia’s government added $150b to its foreign exchange reserves. China’s state banks likely - this is the only…
June 11, 2012
Defense and Security
Ask the Experts: Preventing Sexual Violence
Last week, forty members of Congress re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). As Amnesty International’s Cristina Finch explains, the I-VAWA “would coordinate and improve …
June 16, 2015
Defense and Security
Top Ten Findings of the CIA Inspector General’s Report on 9/11
Last week, in response to long-standing FOIA requests, the CIA declassified—with significant redactions—five documents related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The most notable was a J…
