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August 5, 2015
Asia
Rethinking Asia’s Postwar Settlement
The seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II is being marked in Northeast Asia by efforts to refresh—and revise—understandings of the brutal twentieth century war that laid the foundations o…
January 19, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Obama’s State of the Union
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed President Obama’s State of the Union address next Tuesday; the growing debate over cuts to U.S. defense spending; the GOP primary in Sou…
July 25, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: The Economics of Higher Education
Noted bond and stock analyst A. Gary Shilling wrote a pair of opinion pieces discussing the economics of higher education for Bloomberg. In the first, he described the income benefit a college degree…
July 5, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: High Speed Rail Lacks Long-Term Support
The Congressional Research Service recently issued a report on the development of high-speed rail (HSR) in the United States. Most federal funding has either supported upgrading existing rail lines i…
December 4, 2014
Global
Noncommunicable Diseases in Developing Countries Emerging As a Global Health Crisis, Warns CFR Task Force
Rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing faster, in younger people, and with worse outcomes than in wealt…