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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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September 12, 2011
9/11
Seven Best Books on 9/11 and the U.S. Response
The best books written on the 9/11 attacks and on how the U.S. government has responded in the decade since then.
April 23, 2012
Conflict Prevention
Understanding Illicit Networks
We all know that, in recent decades, businesses have internationalized their operations like never before, but a less well-known result of globalization is that transnational criminal enterprises hav…
July 12, 2012
Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Clinton Meets Morsi, India Picks a President, Hungary Hosts the EU and IMF, and Somalia Struggles
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Egypt; the Indian presidential election; the European Commission-International Monetary Fu…
July 17, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Major Research Universities Join With Coursera
Coursera, a year-old online learning company co-founded by two Stanford computer scientists, will announce today that twelve additional major research universities will join the project, including th…
October 3, 2012
Politics and Government
Georgia’s Election Brings New Hope for Democracy
More than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia passed an important democratic milestone this week when the opposition party won the parliamentary elections and…
