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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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June 9, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello (Ahlan), Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: President of Egypt
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office as Egypt’s new president yesterday. He succeeded the interim president, Adly Mansour. And who appointed Mansour? Why, Sisi himself after he and the Egypt…
February 12, 2016
Highlights of the Global Threat Briefings
Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, “Worldwide Threats,” witnesses: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, February 9,…
December 30, 2013
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Remembering Ten World Figures Who Died in 2013
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
September 18, 2005
United States
Synthetic CDOs, China and Systemic Risk
I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the only t…