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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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August 13, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Rick Perry, GOP Presidential Candidate
Texas Governor Rick Perry delivers remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters) For seventeen of the past forty-eigh…
May 27, 2014
India
Hello, Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India
India did not produce Horatio Alger, but it certainly has produced a Horatio-Alger story: Narendra Modi. Yesterday the son of a poor tea seller took the oath of office as India’s fourteenth (or fifte…
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.
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…
June 18, 2006
Emerging Markets
A hard landing in 2006 - just not in the US?
Nouriel and I postulated back in early 2005 that there was a meaningful risk that the next “emerging market” crisis might come from the US – and it might come sooner than most expected. The basic q…