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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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July 2, 2013
United States
Nice-Guy Obama Fails Turkey’s Democracy
This article was originally published at The Christian Science Monitor here on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. The US ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, took a lot of criticism from Turkish activists…
May 17, 2009
Monetary Policy
"We hate you guys ... but there is nothing much we can do"
That – now famous -- quote by Luo Peng isn’t really true. China’s government choose to peg its currency to the dollar. More importantly, China’s government choose to peg to the dollar at a rate t…
February 14, 2024
Indonesia
Prabowo Wins. Does Indonesian Democracy Lose?
Prabowo Subianto has won Indonesia’s presidential election. What will his presidency bring?
December 8, 2023
United States
Campaign Roundup: The Fourth Republican Presidential Debate
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: Substance took a back seat when four Republican presidential candidates took the debate stage in Al…
May 24, 2019
United States
Remembering Those Memorial Day Honors
The United States has fought twelve major wars and a countless number of smaller skirmishes in its history. Memorial Day is how we honor the soldiers, sailors, airmen, airwomen, and marines who did n…
July 3, 2013
Trade
The U.S.-EU Spying Fiasco: Why Commercial Espionage is a Bad Idea for the United States
When I was a young reporter in 1993 covering the final days of the Uruguay Round world trade negotiations in Geneva, I got a strange phone call in my hotel room from one of the lobbyists for a big U…
