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July 14, 2005

Capital Flows
Is oil always sold to the highest bidder?

I suspect that the US is not prepared for the implications of a world where China’s reserves are rising fast enough to allow China to finance the purchase of one Unocal every month. I also would bet…

January 13, 2015

Military Operations
Guest Post: Obama’s Legacy-Troop Reductions or Drone Strikes?

Amelia M. Wolf is a research associate in the Center for Preventive Action and the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In its latest edition…

Drone 2015 image

July 11, 2016

Europe
Can Europe Declare Fiscal Victory and Go Home?

Rules are rules and all. But the application of poorly conceived rules is still a problem. Especially in the face of a negative external shock. The eurozone’s fiscal policy is, more or less, th…

November 7, 2013

The World Next Week: UN Climate Change Conference Begins in Poland, the IAEA Visits Iran, and TTIP Negotiations Resume

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the upcoming conference on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (I…

A wind farm in Guazhou, China (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).