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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 6, 2007
Political History and Theory
God and Gold
An illuminating account by Walter Russell Mead of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world.
December 1, 2001
Political History and Theory
Special Providence
The United States has had a more successful foreign policy than any other great power in history. Council Senior Fellow Walter Russell Mead argues that the United States is successful because its strategy is rooted in Americans' concrete interests, which value trade and commerce as much as military security.
February 1, 2003
Development
The Bridge to a Global Middle Class
Read an excerpt of The Bridge to a Global Middle Class. The Bridge to a Global Middle Class compiles a unique series of papers originally commissioned by the Council on Foreign Relations in the wa…
January 1, 1997
Asia
Fires Across the Water
The glittering economic success of the New Asia has a dark side of drug trafficking, illegal migration, labor abuses, and pollution. These so-called "transnational problems" are grabbing headlines an…
April 20, 2010
Financial Markets
More Money Than God
The first authoritative history of hedge funds; from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.
