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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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December 20, 2021
United States
How I Got Here: Lives in Public Service
“Dark times,” Hannah Arendt once noted, “are not only not new, they are no rarity in history.” She maintained her conviction, however, “that even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect s…
May 3, 2005
Iraq
Losing Iraq
A disenchanted government insider’s take on the planning that did go on for postwar Iraq that the Bush administration willfully ignored. According to conventional wisdom, Iraq has suffered because…
January 2, 2013
Financial Markets
The Battle of Bretton Woods
A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn.
December 12, 2017
United States
The World Turned Upside Down: Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age (The Aspen Policy Book Series)
Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the lib…
April 1, 2001
Climate Change
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Most politicians, policy-makers, and analysts hailed the Kyoto Protocol as a vital first step toward slowing greenhouse warming. Council Senior Fellow David Victor was not among them. In this clear a…
