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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 16, 2012
Arctic
A Strategy to Advance the Arctic Economy
The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas, and mi…
April 11, 2012
Infrastructure
Encouraging U.S. Infrastructure Investment
See CFR Senior Fellow and Renewing America Director Edward Alden's accompanying blog post here. Despite the pressing infrastructure investment needs of the United States, federal infrastructure po…
September 22, 2014
South Korea
Breaking the Stalemate in U.S.-ROK Nuclear Cooperation Negotiations
A dispute over whether South Korea (ROK) should have the right to enrich and reprocess U.S.-origin nuclear fuels has led to a deadlock in talks on a new bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement. Failu…
December 9, 2013
Development
Banking on Growth: U.S. Support for Small and Medium Enterprises in Least-Developed Countries
The United States has made economic development a central tenet of its national security policy, alongside defense and diplomacy. One of the best and most cost-effective avenues for furthering econom…
April 2, 2020
United States
Reducing Disaster Costs by Building Better
Although local communities decide where and how development occurs, the federal government pays for those decisions when disaster strikes. In the face of climate change, the federal government should…
