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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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October 12, 2010
North Korea
Apparent Heir: Kim Jong Un’s Ascension and The Challenge to South Korea
Having spent the past week in Seoul in the aftermath of the September 28 Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) conference and on the eve of the unprecedented 65th anniversary celebrations of the WPK’s foun…
January 9, 2014
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Five Policy Issues for 2014
Earlier this week I highlighted five issues that could prove particularly thorny for international economic policymakers this year. They were: – A further sharp depreciation of the yen, in a scenar…
July 2, 2014
India
Time to Fold SRAP into the SCA Bureau
Secretary of State John Kerry formally announced today that the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP), Ambassador Jim Dobbins, would retire from the position at the end of this m…
June 18, 2014
More Books to Read This Summer
Last week, Bob McMahon, Gideon Rose, and I offered up our summer reading suggestions on The World Next Week podcast. India Adams and her colleagues on the CFR Library staff were not to be outdone. Th…
December 2, 2011
Friday File: Does the United States Matter Less?
A shrimp boat trawling near the mouth of the Atchafalaya River near Morgan City, Louisiana. (Sean Gardner/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. I had the good fortune to spend the last two days at a con…
