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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 1, 2020
Senegal
How Remittances From Petit Senegal, a Diaspora Community in New York City, Build Wealth Abroad
The African diaspora sends more money to Africa than U.S. foreign aid and foreign direct investment. Petit Senegal is filled with thriving, tax-paying businesses owned and operated Africans, whose remittances fund investments in communities back home.
February 21, 2020
Togo
Togo Slides Toward Authoritarianism
President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo will face six other candidates in the election, including longtime rival Jean Pierre Fabre. Fabre, a human rights activist, was nominated as the leader of Togo's main opposition party, National Alliance for Change, late last year. Thanks in part to the fragmented opposition, Gnassingbe is favored to win.
September 26, 2014
United States
This Week: ISIS struck in Syria and Iraq as the Middle East takes center stage at the UN
Significant Developments Syria. The United States conducted its first ever military strikes against ISIS in Syria this week, targeting primarily oil refineries and infrastructure used for command an…
December 28, 2012
An Update to the EIA’s 2006 Survey of Estimates of the Effect of Oil Prices on the U.S. Economy
Various studies try to quantitatively relate real U.S. GDP growth, employment growth, and changes in consumer price levels to oil prices. For those of you who work on modeling these relationships, he…
December 28, 2020
2020 in Review
Ten Foreign Policy Notables Who Died in 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
