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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 31, 2010
United States
TWE Remembers: George C. Marshall
When I taught “American Foreign Policy” (30:061) at the University of Iowa (Go Hawkeyes!) students would occasionally ask me which American policymaker I most admired. I never knew whether the quest…
February 18, 2007
China
Goldman: PBoC using swaps to limit reserve growth
Goldman seems to have confirmed something that I -- and, for that matter, Stephen Green of Standard Chartered and Louis Kuijs of the World Bank -- have suspected for a while: China's "true" reserve g…
October 29, 2006
China
Goldman economic research v. the Economist (Drivers of Chinese growth)
I, obviously, liked this week’s Economist article on China quite a bit. So I really shouldn't still be writing about last week’s article on Chinese consumption growth. That article argued that cons…
April 9, 2012
Turkey
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Meet General Kenan Evren
Last Wednesday was a big day in Turkey. General Kenan Evren, the leader of the September 12, 1980 coup d’etat, was charged in an Ankara courtroom with “acts against the forces of the state” during th…
February 2, 2024
Political History and Theory
The President’s Inbox Recap: Henry Wallace and the Origins of the Cold War
The post-World War II era would have looked very different had Henry Wallace become president.
