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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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November 5, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Does “Africa” Exist?
Simon Kuper has published a thoughtful piece in the Financial Times that argues the word "Africa” has “lost what meaning it ever had and should be binned.” He argues that in 1969 (the year he was bor…
May 7, 2012
Turkey
U.S. Needs to Deepen Ties with Turkey Despite Concerns, Says New CFR Task Force
It is incumbent upon the leaders of the United States and Turkey to define a new partnership "in order to make a strategic relationship a reality," says a new Council on Foreign Relations–sponsored I…
June 14, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Michele Bachmann, GOP Presidential Candidate
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann speaks at a rally on Capitol Hill on March 31, 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Michele Bachmann made some news at last night’s rather sedate GOP presidential …
September 9, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Review of “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia” by Ben Bland
Thomas Pepinsky is Tisch University Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, most recently, of …
September 11, 2006
China
The Wall Street Journal (finally) takes note: Europe, not the US, explains the recent surge in China’s exports
I was tempted to title this blog “$18.8 billion more reasons for Tyler Cowen, Dan Drezner, Greg Mankiw and a host of others to think the RMB isn’t really undervalued.” But that would be a bit…