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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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May 17, 2007
Economics
Visiting Bolivia (part II)
Everyone in Bolivia is focusing on the shift toward "participatory democracy," from the previous "representative democracy." Some embrace this change enthusiastically, while others view it warily. Wh…
August 18, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Guest Post: Bollyky on Tobacco and Trade
Jagdish, a thirty-two-year-old daily wage laborer, smokes a cigarette while working at a timber market in Mumbai on June 7, 2011. (Danish Siddiqui/courtesy Reuters) President Obama…
March 19, 2012
Cuba
Cuba: Another View
The views of my CFR colleague Julia Sweig on Cuba appear in an interview posted on our web site here under the title “The Frozen US-Cuba Relationship.” Ms. Sweig sees massive changes occurring in Cu…
July 18, 2012
Human Rights
Does the United States Favor Democracy in El Salvador?
Having undermined democracy in Honduras in 2009 and watched democracy disappear in Nicaragua as the Sandinistas regained power in 2011, it is perhaps not surprising that the Obama administration appe…
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…