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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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March 26, 2014
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Hello (Ciao), Matteo Renzi: Prime Minister of Italy
When President Barack Obama stops in Rome tomorrow he will be meeting with a politician who can match his own meteoric rise to power: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Last month the thirty-nine-y…
December 8, 2017
Elections and Voting
Ten Elections to Watch in 2018
Numerous countries will hold elections in 2018. Here are ten to watch.
October 7, 2006
Financial Markets
Italian (oil) realism
Paolo Scaroni (interviewed by Jad Mouawad in the New York Times) points out that if Americans continue to drive SUVs with oil at $60 a barrel, oil isn't all that high. Scaroni heads an oil company (…
March 15, 2007
United States
Capital inflows to the US resumed in January …
That shouldn't be a total surprise. You cannot run a $850-860b current account deficit for long if you cannot borrow from the world. December's roughly $15b net outflows simply wasn't sustainable…
December 4, 2014
China
Alisha Sud: China’s Investments in Brazil Spark Public Concern
Alisha Sud is an intern for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. In October, Baidu, China’s top search engine, bought Peixe Urbano, Brazil’s largest internet marketplace for local comme…
