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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 25, 2020
Election 2020
The President's Inbox: Should the United States Leave Afghanistan?
Since November, I have been talking with experts with differing views on how the United States should handle the foreign policy challenges it faces. These special episodes are part of CFR’s Election …
September 24, 2014
Mexico
A Conversation with Enrique Peña Nieto
Yesterday, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico joined us at the Council on Foreign Relations as part of the Russel C. Leffingwell Lecture series. In a conversation with Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman o…
March 8, 2011
Politics and Government
Will Libya Hurt Obama in 2012?
A rebel fighter holds a Kingdom of Libya flag in a battle near Ras Lanuf on March 4, 2011. (Goran Tomasevic/courtesy Reuters) Will the administration’s slowness in responding to events in Libya hurt…
November 13, 2006
Economics
“Exceedingly unlikely to be indefinitely sustained”
Those are – best I can tell – the words former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin used to describe the current pattern of global capital flows, one which has allowed the US to finance a current account …
October 28, 2005
United States
Who would sit on today’s “committee to save the world”
That is one of many interesting issues raised by Times selectman Floyd Norris today. As Norris notes, Alan Greenspan never had half the power people thought he had. All he does is set short-term (cr…