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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…
April 26, 2013
United States
Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon, and America’s “Dirty Wars”
David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013, pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of s…
February 13, 2012
Military Operations
When America Attacked Syria
In response to the worsening civil war in Syria and the Bashar al-Assad regime’s continuous use of rockets, artillery, and sniper fire against civilian population centers, some policymakers, analysts…
December 11, 2006
Financial Markets
The GCC’s dollar peg …
China will have a current account surplus of over $200b this year. China has about 1.3 billion people. The GCC countries (Saudi Arabia and the small states on the Gulf) will also have a current ac…
December 23, 2007
Capital Flows
A Saudi investment authority?
The FT broke a major story -- at least in my world -- late on Friday. The Saudis are about to set up a sovereign wealth fund: Saudi Arabia plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund that is expecte…