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Introduction
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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December 16, 2019
United States
Preparing for the Next Foreign Policy Crisis
It is vital that the United States devote more attention and resources to preventing potential crises from arising and being better prepared to manage them when they do.
April 7, 2010
Economic Crises
Prime Brokers and Derivatives Dealers
Overview Runs by prime-brokerage clients and derivatives counterparties were a central cause of the global financial crisis. These runs precipitated the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brother…
February 9, 2015
Biotechnology
Mitigating the Risks of Synthetic Biology
Gigi Kwik Gronvall examines the increased use of synthetic biology—a nascent field that engineers biology to improve manufacturing and the development of medicines—in order to highlight the need for oversight and better regulation.
September 8, 2022
Haiti
A Smarter U.S. Assistance Strategy for Haiti
Implementing the Global Fragility Act in Haiti necessitates a change in U.S. assumptions and actions, writes Susan D. Page. The United States should work alongside Haitians desirous of charting their…
August 29, 2022
Mozambique
Stabilizing Mozambique
Mozambique faces a host of challenges, from escalating climate crises to an ongoing insurgency in the country's northeast, that the United States can help contain with funding from the Global Fragili…
