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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 18, 2006
Mexico
Challenges for a Postelection Mexico
Overview The contentious July 2006 Mexican presidential election has placed Mexico squarely back on the U.S. foreign policy agenda. Following months of unrest in which supporters of Manuel Lópe…
May 7, 2007
International Organizations
Reform of the International Monetary Fund
Overview The International Monetary Fund’s purpose and scope of work have changed dramatically since its founding after World War II. Whereas at first the Fund aimed to maintain monetary and ex…
May 11, 2004
Philippines
Challenges for a Post-Election Philippines
Overview As a victim of terrorism and the strongest supporter of U.S. counterterrorism policy among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippines already plays a vital…
September 2, 2008
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power
Overview In 2000 the Council on Foreign Relations established the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies to examine issues at the intersection of global politics and economics. Few is…
November 19, 2014
Nigeria
U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram
Overview The militant Islamist group Boko Haram's increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Chr…
