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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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December 8, 2022
China
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Beijing's Global Media Offensive by Joshua Kurlantzick
Since China’s ascendancy toward great power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military power. In contrast, most viewed China’s ability to pro…
April 22, 2024
Myanmar
The Bottom is Falling out for Myanmar’s Junta
The Myanmar army is experiencing a rapid rise in defections and military losses, posing questions about the continued viability of the junta’s grip on power.
December 1, 2022
China
China Is Wielding Growing Influence Inside Other Countries, Argues Joshua Kurlantzick in New Book
Motivated by its growing power, increasingly authoritarian domestic politics, and an ever more assertive foreign policy, China, for the first time in decades, “has dramatically increased its efforts …
October 17, 2022
China
Joshua Kurlantzick: My Previous Book on State Capitalism in China—Right Idea, Wildly Underestimated
Chinese President Xi Jinping has gone much further than analysts had predicted he would in state control of the private sector in China and departure from a consensus based authoritarian system to on…
December 14, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Prophecy of Nigeria’s TB Joshua
Nigerians like to say that they are the happiest people in the world and the most religious. Public events commonly open and close with prayer. Causation of events, big or small is routinely ascribed…
March 11, 2024
Religion
A King and His Subjects
The relationship between a Nigerian pastor on death row and his congregation offers a timely glimpse into the nature of devotion and social obedience across African Pentecostal churches.
