Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
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…
1,387 Results for:
Filters
December 15, 2006
China
Ben Bernanke (almost) speaks truth to (real) financial power …
Bernanke’s speech at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is well worth reading. He quite accurately notes – at least in the written text, if not in the actual speech – that China’s extensive inte…
September 9, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Review of “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia” by Ben Bland
Thomas Pepinsky is Tisch University Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, most recently, of …
January 6, 2011
Politics and Government
The Last Days of Ben Ali?
Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali waves to supporters after he took the oath at the national assembly in Tunis (Zoubeir Souissi/Courtesy of Reuters) If you don’t follow the Moor Next Door,…
October 24, 2005
United States
Bernanke and the global savings glut
If you want a quip --A John Roberts, not a Harriet Miers. Actually, more of a moderate John Roberts than a John Roberts. Bernanke will have no trouble getting confirmed. Bernanke's academic credent…