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November/December 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Strict export restrictions are making U.S. businesses less competitive and the country less secure. Policymakers must craft new regulations to help, rather than harm, U.S. interests.
See more in United States, Trade
September/October 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Despite common assumptions, oil prices are likely to remain low for a while: key producers, especially Saudi Arabia, have been boosting their production, and demand growth in top consumers like the United States and China will be more modest than expected.
See more in Trade
September/October 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The economic crisis is hurting the world's top currency. But the pound, the yen, the euro, the renminbi, and the IMF's accounting currency are no match for the dollar. At least for now.
See more in International Finance
September/October 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Little attention has been given to reducing emissions of the light-absorbing particles known as "black carbon" or the gases that form ozone--even though doing so would be easier and cheaper and have a more immediate effect.
See more in Climate Change, Environmental Pollution
September/October 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The free market has eliminated environmental hazards in the past, from leaded gas to acid rain, and it can solve the problem of climate change today.
See more in Climate Change, Environmental Pollution
May/June 2009
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Across the world, the free market is being overtaken by state capitalism, a system in which the state is the leading economic actor. How should the United States respond?
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, International Finance
May/June 2009
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The United States is declining as a nation and a world power.
See more in United States, Global Governance
May/June 2009
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Hunger remains one of world’s gravest humanitarian problems, but the United States has failed to prioritize food aid and agricultural development.
See more in Global Health, Poverty
March/April 2009
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Democratic institutions cannot be set up easily; they are likely to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist.
See more in Democracy Promotion, Economic Development
March/April 2009
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As climate change accelerates, policymakers may have to consider "geoengineering" as an emergency strategy to cool the planet. Engineering the climate strikes most as a bad idea, but it is time to start taking it seriously.
See more in Climate Change, Energy/Environment
March/April 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The future of the Arab world will depend on the outcome of a battle between those advocating Islamic theocracy and those seeking to establish liberal democracy.
See more in Middle East, International Peace and Security
January/February 2009
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Trade problems are an underlying cause of the financial crisis. To truly revive the world economy, a new trade consensus is necessary.
See more in Economic Development, Emerging Markets
January/February 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Autocracies such as China and Russia do not represent a sustainable alternative to liberal democracy. In fact, the pull of liberal democracy is stronger than ever.
See more in Global Governance
November/December 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.
See more in Global Health, Poverty
November/December 2008
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USAID has become ineffective because it is underfunded, understaffed, and losing influence. The next president should revive it by either making it autonomous or elevating it to a cabinet-level department.
See more in United States, Human Rights
January/February 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Whatever the economic gains under Putin, they would have been greater under a democratic regime.
See more in Russian Fed., Economic Development
September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The United States can curb its own emissions and encourage energy effeciency and the development of clean-energy technology worldwide by rethinking carbon regimes.
See more in Climate Change, Technology and Foreign Policy
September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Because borders are becoming ever more porous and contingent, everyone has an interest in humanitarian intervention.
See more in International Peace and Security, Humanitarian Intervention
July/August 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Oil stocks can help buffer economic shocks, but only if Washington radically reforms its handling of them.
See more in United States, Natural Resources Management
May/June 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become a stain on the United States' reputation. Shutting it down will cause new problems. Rather than hold terrorism suspects in preventive detention, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
See more in Human Rights
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