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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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April 20, 2010
Financial Markets
More Money Than God
The first authoritative history of hedge funds; from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.
October 10, 2006
Development
Playing Monopoly with the Devil
Read an excerpt of Playing Monopoly with the Devil. Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book ex…
April 1, 2006
Saudi Arabia
Thicker Than Oil
Read an excerpt of Thicker Than Oil. For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker Tha…
March 6, 2008
Wars and Conflict
America Between the Wars
A compelling narrative of how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics o…
May 1, 2002
Cuba
Inside the Cuban Revolution
Council Senior Fellow Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores, to a central position, the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano.
