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Introduction
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…
April 22, 2004
ChinaApril 22, 2004—China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced skyrocketing levels of pollution. Environmental deg…
August 30, 2005
PollutionAugust 30, 2005—The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future(Cornell University Press, 2004) by Director of Asia Studies Elizabeth Economy was named the best social sciences bo…
June 2, 2016
South AfricaJohn Campbell argues in Morning in South Africa that despite South Africa’s currentpolitical and economic malaise, there are grounds for optimism about the country’sdemocratic future.
January 24, 2003
United StatesJanuary 23, 2003 - Former NSC staffer Eric Schwartz has joined the Council to direct a new Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Iraq. The Task Force will addres…
February 18, 2004
GlobalFebruary 17, 2004 - Critics of globalization blame it for everything from child labor to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other ills afflicting poorer nations. In his…