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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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June 15, 2016
Fossil Fuels
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Policy Response to Oil Price Volatility?
This guest post is authored by Jason Bordoff, professor of professional practice and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Publi…
March 23, 2012
Friday File: Cherry Trees Blossom in Washington, DC
Above the Fold. Washington, DC, owes a huge debt of gratitude to Tokyo. It was one hundred years ago next Tuesday that Japan’s largest city gave our nation’s capital 3,000 cherry trees to plant along…
March 25, 2011
Defense and Security
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Obama Versus the Framers
I noted in a post earlier today that President Obama can make a credible legal case—if he were ever forced to make one—that he had all the authority he needed to order Operation Odyssey Dawn. But his…
December 4, 2012
International Organizations
UN Control of the Internet? An Idea Whose Time Will Never Come
The Persian Gulf is receiving plenty of press this week, as climate negotiators debate in Doha and political turmoil buffets Bahrain. But another important drama is unfolding in Dubai, where more tha…
July 30, 2013
Japan
Aldrich, Platte, and Sklarew: What’s Ahead for Abe’s Energy Agenda?
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a major victory in the Upper House election on July 21, and gained control of both houses of the Diet together with its coalition partner New Komeito. Th…
