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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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August 20, 2009
Middle East and North Africa
Forces of Fortune
Forces of Fortune reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the …
November 30, 2007
Financial Markets
Regional Monetary Integration
An explanation of why governments contemplate regional monetary integration and why some country groups are more likely than others to exercise that option.
March 1, 2004
Economics
In Defense of Globalization
An internationally renowned economist, Jagdish Bhagwati takes conventional wisdom—that globalization is the cause of several social ills—and turns it on its head. Properly regulated, globalization, h…
April 1, 2006
Saudi Arabia
Thicker Than Oil
Read an excerpt of Thicker Than Oil. For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker Tha…
March 6, 2008
Wars and Conflict
America Between the Wars
A compelling narrative of how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics o…
