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August 8, 2013

Climate Change
Keystone, Science, and Politics

Jeff Tollefson has an excellent new piece in Nature exploring the debate within the scientific community over Keystone XL. It makes two things pretty clear. As a matter of substance, there’s pretty m…

February 9, 2011

Politics and Government
Corporate Member Executives Roundtable, "Beyond Whole of Government: Public Private Collaboration to Achieve U.S. Foreign Policy Goals"

The December 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review emphasized, among other things, the importance of smart and coordinated foreign assistance efforts, and a whole of government approach t…

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May 31, 2022

Europe and Eurasia
Russia's War in Ukraine: How Does it End?

Our panelists discussed the current situation in and regarding Ukraine, the goals of NATO, Russia, and Ukraine, and alternative futures.

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April 7, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: WMDs, Libya, and Drone Strikes in Yemen

Peter Cynkar, “Opinion Briefing: Mexico’s Drug War,” Gallup, April 4, 2012. Mexicans personally feel less safe in their own neighborhoods in 2011 than they did at the onset of the drug war. Whi…

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January 12, 2011

Fossil Fuels
Why Are Oil Prices So Volatile?

Oil prices are up again today. What’s going on? A look at history gives some interesting insights. Eyal Dvir (Boston College) and Ken Rogoff (Harvard) have a very interesting working paper that trie…