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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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March 1, 2011
Technology and Innovation
South Korea’s 97 Billion Dollar Question: What is Green Growth?
Jill Kosch O’Donnell is a former Junior Associate of The Asia Foundation and is a writer in Washington, DC. In an interview with the Korea Herald earlier this year, Hur Dong-Soo, CEO of Korea’s GS C…
November 22, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Down and Out in Durban: End of the Line for Kyoto?
Activists from the WWF demonstrate on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference COP16 in Cancun (Gerardo Garcia/Courtesy Reuters). As delegates from nearly 200 countries prepare to descend o…
June 26, 2012
Education
Foreign Languages and U.S. Economic Competitiveness
Americans are lousy at learning foreign languages. We all know the historical reasons – the United States was long a big, largely monolingual country with a fairly self-sufficient economy. U.S. econo…
June 29, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killings, and Nuclear Weapons
Government Accountability Office, State and DOD Face Challenges in Finalizing Support and Security Capabilities, June 28, 2012. The Departments of State (State) and Defense (DOD) planned for a civil…
September 24, 2012
Asia
Not Time to Fully Reengage With the Myanmar Military
As Aung San Suu Kyi travels the United States, and President Thein Sein arrives for the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. relations with Myanmar are expanding at a pace so rapid no one would have…
