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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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June 4, 2013
Enhancing the Obama Administration’s Drone Strikes Transparency
Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave a wide-ranging speech on U.S. counterterrorism policies. The result has been significant confusion regarding targeted killings, because what was reported in…
May 3, 2006
Financial Markets
Stephen Jen knows currencies, not communiqués
Stephen – the dollar will go down, but “ the US will not adopt a weak dollar policy … and the sky will not fall on the dollar” – Jen has gotten the course of a the dollar/ euro roughly right for the …
December 21, 2006
Emerging Markets
Crises of too much v. crises of too little
I was not all that impressed by the “day after” coverage of Thailand’s capital controls in the financial press. Everyone initially looked for parallels to 1997 – and signs that the most recen…
January 24, 2008
Financial Markets
Property without power?
Diplomatic sovereign wealth funds argue, more or less, that they have no desire for power - so there should be no restrictions on their ability to accumulate property. Those hoping for a cut of the S…
July 22, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo: President of Indonesia
Sometimes sure things turn out not to be so sure. Just ask Joko Widodo, who is better known to his fellow Indonesians as “Jokowi.” At the start of 2014 he was expected to win Indonesia’s presidential…
