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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.
A Cold History Puts a Freeze on New Talks
By Elizabeth Pond
The North Korean rocket launch and Kim Jong-un's repeat of his dad’s dance of the seven veils in nuclear negotiations may have monopolized the headlines this week, but the occasion that made the Korean peninsula the center of the universe was actually the second Nuclear Security Summit held in South Korea.
Tags: *POINT* William Beecher: Obama’s Ill-Defined Nuclear Strategy
With President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit kicking off Monday evening, it may be an appropriate time to reflect on whether his newly formulated nuclear strategy is entirely consistent with his call for a “world free of nuclear weapons.” Or perhaps more critical&
William Beecher: START Is Hardly a Beginning
The Obama Administration hailed the recently concluded strategic arms reduction agreement with Moscow as signaling a newly “strong partnership” with Russia, an initiative to curb or reverse the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea, and a step toward what the
