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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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May 13, 2013
Indonesia
Realizing Democracy: Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia
Isobel Coleman hosts Joshua Kurlantzick, Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion about the political and economic transition of Thailand and Indonesia as part of a C…
August 31, 2023
Thailand
Thailand’s Turbulence: Implications for the Region and the World
Thailand’s national elections saw a resounding vote for democratic change, but the ruling elite have maneuvered to preserve power, potentially setting in motion another round of political upheaval.
January 28, 2011
Myanmar
Suu Kyi in the New Yorker
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the crowd during a ceremony to mark the country's 63rd Independence Day at the National League for Democracy (NLD) head office in Yangon Janu…
February 18, 2016
Global
Generic Drug Regulation and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Pricing
Joshua Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University join CFR’s Thomas Bollyky to discuss the role that generic drug regulation might play…
April 18, 2022
Nigeria
State Pardon for Former Governors Puts Nigeria’s Anticorruption Drive in Jeopardy
The unexpected pardon last week of two leading politicians convicted earlier on charges of corruption has brought renewed focus on Nigeria’s flailing anticorruption drive. Following a meeting of the country’s Council of State, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, governors respectively of the central and northeastern states of Plateau and Taraba from 1997 to 2007 were pardoned along with 157 other convicts.
August 9, 2023
Southeast Asia
The State of Democracy in Southeast Asia is…Awful
Democracy continues to regress across Southeast Asia.
