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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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January 27, 2005
Iraq
IRAQ: Reconstruction
This publication is now archived. What’s the status of Iraqi reconstruction?It’s advancing slowly. The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq can cite some progress as it tries to restore basic services and brin…
December 20, 2006
Disasters
Assessing the Tsunami Warning System
Two years after a tsunami devastated several Indian Ocean countries, a rudimentary warning system is in place. But coordination and funding concerns have slowed plans for a permanent regional system.
October 25, 2010
China
A New Threshold for Japan’s Diplomacy
I have just returned from a week in Tokyo, where I attended the annual CSIS-Nikkei conference on U.S.-Japan relations. As I noted in our CFR.org roundup on how Washington should respond to Beijing’s …
June 29, 2016
United States
Brexit, Experts, and Trump: Is Policy Expertise Still Relevant in a Populist Age?
Among the main casualties of the populist wave now surging through Western democracies is respect for policy expertise. Michael Gove, justice secretary in the UK government and cheerleader for Brexit…
August 22, 2011
Summer’s End
I am away on vacation at an undisclosed location. Below please find a list of what I am reading while I am away, though I am open to suggestions. There is a very good bookstore in a nearby town. …
