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June 15, 2016

Fossil Fuels
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Policy Response to Oil Price Volatility?

This guest post is authored by Jason Bordoff, professor of professional practice and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Publi…

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas (REUTERS/Richard Carson).

March 20, 2008

Petrodollars: How to Spend It

Rachel ZiembaNote: This post is by Rachel Ziemba, filling in for Brad Setser Despite the fact that the price of oil and in fact almost all commodities has slid in recent days, they are up substantial…

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July 20, 2007

Financial Markets
Oil and the dollar

Oil is once again quite strong.    Last summers’ rally was driven in part by a rise the geopolitical risk premium.   This summers’ rally seems a product of both strong global growth and relatively re…

October 15, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976

Highlights from the recently-released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis 1974-1980 Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting, October 22, 1974 …

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December 26, 2013

Defense and Security
Ten Americans Who Died in 2013 Who Shaped U.S. Foreign Policy

As 2013 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year. 

American flags fly at half mast. (Jonathan Ernst/Courtesy Reuters)