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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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February 25, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Israel, Food Aid, and the Iranian Nuclear Program
International Atomic Energy Agency, Report on the Islamic Republic of Iran (PDF), February 24, 2012. Ehud Eiran, “What Happens After Israel Attacks Iran,” Foreign Affairs, February 23, 2012. …
October 17, 2011
Monetary Policy
Can Monetary Policy Mitigate The Effects of Oil Shocks? A Follow-Up
I wrote a week ago about an old paper by Bernanke, Gertler, and Watson (BGW) that attributed much of the impact of past oil price shocks to the response of monetary policy. Jim Hamilton followed up t…
December 22, 2014
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Guest Post: Booking a Return Flight
Harry Oppenheimer is a research associate for national security at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has taken on an international flavor as foreign fighte…
April 20, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Why Europe Can’t Bring Peace to the Middle East
Lady Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top foreign policy official, has received a remarkable letter from the "European Eminent Persons Group on the Middle East Peace Process." This self-selected collectivi…
April 25, 2014
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Kissinger, China’s Navy, and Counterinsurgency Wars
“The Secretary’s Analytical Staff Meeting on Non-Proliferation,” U.S. Department of State, August 2, 1974. SECRETARY KISSINGER: I just have a reluctance to have the United States go charging around …