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February 7, 2020

Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: President Trump’s New Land-Mine Policy

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: Democrats vow to reverse the Trump administration’s new land-mine policy, the candidates participa…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

October 15, 2013

Fossil Fuels
The Shale Gas and Tight Oil Boom

Introduction U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country's dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply risin…

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Report by Stephen P.A. Brown and Mine K. Yucel

August 16, 2016

South Africa
Illegal Mining and the Role of “Zama Zamas” in South Africa

Nathan Birhanu is an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. He is a graduate of Fordham University’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy & Development. I…

Illegal Mining and the Role of Zama Zamas in South Africa
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 26, 2005

Europe
Mining European data

I spent some time over the weekend delving into the Eurozone balance of payments data published by the ECB in its monthly bulletin, looking for insights into the global flow of funds. But to jazz thi…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 5, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa Mining Unrest Impacts ANC

The Zuma government is handling poorly the upsurge in mining unrest at the Marikana platinum mine, which is spreading to gold mines near Johannesburg. Julius Malema, expelled African National Congres…

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (L) addresses striking miners outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg August 22, 2012.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition