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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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July 22, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo: President of Indonesia
Sometimes sure things turn out not to be so sure. Just ask Joko Widodo, who is better known to his fellow Indonesians as “Jokowi.” At the start of 2014 he was expected to win Indonesia’s presidential…
February 12, 2016
Highlights of the Global Threat Briefings
Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, “Worldwide Threats,” witnesses: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, February 9,…
December 30, 2013
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Remembering Ten World Figures Who Died in 2013
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
March 8, 2009
Financial Markets
The shadow financial system – as illustrated in three new papers that cut through the London fog
Gordon Brown wants to shine a bit more light on the shadow financial system (hat tip IPEZone). One plank of his G-20 action plan is: "reform of international regulation to close regulatory gaps so …
June 16, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: Governor Jeb Bush, GOP Presidential Candidate
We have had two presidents who were the fathers of presidents. We have had a president who was the grandfather of a president. We have even had presidents who were fifth cousins. But we have never ha…
