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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 10, 2006
United States
Self promotion watch (Treasury foreign exchange report edition)
I was interviewed by Adam Davidson of NPR about the Treasury’s forthcoming foreign exchange report (to be released at 4 pm today). You can hear the results here. Adam Davidson also interviewed the…
February 22, 2013
Trade
John Kerry and the Blurring of the Foreign and Domestic
John Kerry’s first major address as secretary of state, delivered Wednesday at the University of Virginia, was light on specifics and priorities. But it offered a useful glimpse into his mindset as t…
June 10, 2013
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: JFK’s "Strategy of Peace" Speech
Commencement addresses have figured prominently in American foreign policy. Whether it was FDR ending the pretense that the United States would remain rigidly neutral in World War II in a speech at t…
August 20, 2019
United States
Back-to-School Reading Special
Every year CFR.org editor Bob McMahon and I record a summer reading episode of CFR’s “The World Next Week” podcast. We usually do it in June as we entertain visions of leisurely summer days yet to co…
September 23, 2014
Bombing Syria: Better Late Than Never, or Too Little Too Late?
Two years after he was first urged to take action in Syria by his own highest-ranking advisers (as well as critics such as this writer), President Obama has finally done so. The President has now und…