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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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May 22, 2017
Asia
Don’t Let the Window of Opportunity for Increasing Asia’s Use of Natural Gas Close
Natural gas markets in the Asia-Pacific are on the cusp of an extraordinary transformation thanks, in part, to the rise of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to the Asia-Pacific from U.S. suppliers…
September 6, 2013
United States
You Might Have Missed: Syria , al-Qaeda Retaliates Against Drones, and Private Contractors
Colleen McCain Nelson, “Obama’s Curbs on Executive Power Draw Fire,” Wall Street Journal, September 5, 2013. A senior administration official said that while the new drone-strike policy does rein in…
August 23, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: CBO Warns Fiscal Cliff Will Cause Recession
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts a recession in 2013 with an economic contraction of 0.5 percent if the "fiscal cliff" is not addressed (TheHill). The CBO director implored …
August 15, 2012
Defense and Security
Paul Ryan Likes Bernard Lewis and Free Trade
CNN’s Jamie Crawford has a nice piece summarizing Paul Ryan’s foreign policy views. Besides offering a sense of some of the countries the GOP vice presidential nominee has visited in recent years, th…
January 5, 2012
Elections and Voting
An Earlier Congo Election
Supporters of opposition UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi gather in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, December 23, 2011. (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters) This is a guest post by University o…
