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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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November 13, 2007
Fossil Fuels
The Pursuit of Black Gold: Pipeline Politics on the Caspian Sea
MARYBOIES: Welcome to today's Council on Foreign Relations meeting. Would you please remember to turn off BlackBerrys, cell phones, pagers, any wireless devices? And I would like to remind the au…
February 22, 2011
Asia
Seven Guidelines for U.S. Central Asia Policy
Pedestrians walk past Bibi Khanum mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (Shamil Baigin/Courtesy Reuters) As noted in my last post, a new report from the bipartisan Central Asia Study Group, chaired by fo…
April 20, 2010
Asia
Central Asia’s Little Problem of Governance
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov Today’s New York Times and Christian Science Monitor pretty much argue that Kyrgyzstan is coming apart at the seams. “Security vacuum!” screams the Monito…
February 3, 2010
Russia
Russia’s Energy Disputes
Buoyed by high oil prices, Russia finds itself embroiled in a number of disputes with foreign firms looking to tap its underdeveloped oil fields and with its neighbors that grew used to subsidized ga…