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How to Better Prepare for the Next Financial Crisis

Morris Goldstein | Institute for International Economics | March 2010
The financial crisis demonstrated that economic difficulties arise as a result of misguided financial as well as monetary policies. With the crisis a recent memory, the chances are good for tackling the root of the problem and reforming the old ...More

A New Strategy for Climate Diplomacy

Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson | German Marshall Fund | March 2010
Following the Copenhagen Accord, there is a danger that Europe and the United States will fall back upon old strategies in international climate politics and hope to see matters through with new patience. But the debacle at Copenhagen clearly showed that the ...More

Ten Suggestions for Strengthening Transatlantic Ties

Daniel S. Hamilton et. al | Center for Transatlantic Relations | March 2010
The United States and Europe urgently need to reconsider their relationship. There is room for redefining and improving the nature of relations across the Atlantic. Both the United States and Europe should make use of existing opportunities to ...More

Problems with Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan

Michael J Flynn et. al | Council on Foreign Relations | February 2010
According to a recent complaint by General McChrystal, senior decision-makers are being forced to turn to the mass media in search of the information they need on Afghanistan. The intelligence community is preoccupied with gathering a flood of ...More

EU Needs to Rethink CSDP Missions

Muriel Asseburg et al.| Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik | February 2010
The over 20 operations and missions conducted up to present within the framework of the European Union’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) have had mixed results, both for civilian and military operations. While some missions like the one in Indonesia ...More

Russian Foreign Policy: Smitten by China?

Andrei Tsygankov l IFRI l February 2010
Russia is increasingly smitten by China.Since the days of Primakov as Foreign Minister, China has largely replaced the West as the object of admiration in Russian foreign policy. This new orientation in Russian foreign policy is not only augmenting ...More

Four Scenarios for Iran's Future

Volker Perthes | openDemocracy l February 2010
It is nearly impossible to predict what the future will hold for Iranian politics. Nevertheless, thinking through various conceivable scenarios does provide decision-makers with important cues as to possible future developments. Two variables are important in any ...More

Eastern Europe Needs the Euro

Anders Aslund l CASE l February 2010
The global financial crisis has had severe repercussions in the new Eastern European EU-member states, as well as in the three former Soviet Republics of Belorussia, Ukraine, and Moldavia. The following lessons can be drawn from the manner in which the crisis impacted ...More

Water Scarcity Forces Business Leaders to Legislate

John Briscoe l McKinsey Quarterly l February 2010
Increasing water scarcity worldwide is quickly becoming one of the major challenges of the 21st century, which policymakers and business leaders will have to tackle together. Policymakers need to realize that certain technologies developed by ...More

More Security for the Global Energy Market

David G. Victor et al. l Foreign Affairs l February 2010
The global energy market is headed towards a crisis. With the entry of China and India, new consumer nations that do not necessarily seek to satisfy their energy needs by the usual commercial deals are forcing their way into the market. Rather they prefer ...More