Policy Paper: Fairly Trading the World's Timber .jpg)
Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
China: The Patron of Global Buddhism?
By Elizabeth Pond
China is making its strongest bid yet to establish a reputation as the patron of global Buddhism. It will follow up its third World Buddhist Forum in Hong Kong (April 25-28) by sponsoring an international peace conference in the Gautama Buddha's Lumbini birthplace in Nepal (April 28-30).
Conversation: Getting Back the High Ground
[Editor's Note: Chinese authorities have declared a "war against secessionist sabotage" against the "Dalai Lama clique" in response to a wave of unrest in and around Tibet.
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By Elizabeth Pond
How does a state squeezed between China and India with only 27 million people in a territory the size of Arkansas maintain its independence?
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