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 vs. the US: Cooperation over Competition (Part 5)
(The Friends of the Columbia University Libraries sponsored a December 7, 2011 lecture by Seymour Topping, Emeritus Professor of International Journalism, on "China Faces the United States From Mao in Yenan to Korea, Vietnam, and Challenges today." Professor Topping discussed how the root experiences of the Chinese leadership, which he observed in Yenan, Mao's remote hea
admin's blog | 
Add new comment | 
Tags: ambiguous, Beijing, China, dialogue, economy, exports, independence, Navy, Obama, policies, ports, relationship, Seymour Topping, Taiwan, Tibet, trade, U.S., United States 
Nepal: Balancing on Top of the World
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?
admin's blog | Add new comment | Tags: Afghanistan, Beijing, China, communist, Dalai Lama, Delhi, democracy, Everest, framework, independence, India, Kathmandu, Lhasa, maoist rebels, Nepal, Pakistan, Prachanda, rivalry, stability, Tibet 