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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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October 3, 2019
Food and Water Security
Down the Hunger Spiral: Pathways to the Disintegration of the Global Food System
For a precarious global agricultural system with powerful feedback loops, business as usual means widespread hunger and embedded systemic risk.
December 9, 2013
India
Indian State Elections Raise Questions About 2014
The results of four of the five state-level elections conducted in India over the past month were announced on Sunday, December 8. (Results from the smaller northeastern state of Mizoram were announc…
June 6, 2012
Waiting for Growth: California, Wisconsin, and Scarcity Politics
Many years ago I was attracted to the idea that advanced economies could gradually move from a relentless focus on economic growth to a “steady state” in which they would grow only slowly, if at all…
November 18, 2010
The World Next Week
The podcast for the The World Next Week is up. I am off-site at a conference, so Robert McMahon sat down with Sebastian Mallaby, who directs CFR’s Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studi…
February 26, 2013
Egypt
Guest Post: The Politics of Egypt’s Rape Epidemic
This post is written by Allison Nour, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. In a powerful scene from the 2010 Egyptian film “678,” a veiled woman boards a crowded public bus on h…
