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Public Policy and Renewable Energy Development
posted by Lindsey Ross on May 10, 2011 at 1:02 pm
New research by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that 80% of the world’s energy could be produced by renewables by 2050. According to Ramon Pichs, co-chair of the authoring group: ‘it is not the availability of the resource but the public policies that will either expand or constrain renewable energy development over…
The Costs of Dependence
posted by Emily Coppel on May 9, 2011 at 11:09 am
The price of rare earth metals has gone up again – according to the New York Times, world prices have doubled just in the last four months. This is in addition to a fourfold increase in prices during 2010. The reason: increasing demand for rare earths, combined with China’s (near) monopoly of the rare earths…
Filling The Void
posted by Amber Allen on May 2, 2011 at 9:13 am
ASP Adjunct Fellow August Cole offers his thoughts on the death of Osama Bin Laden. By: August Cole A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the World Trade Center site retains an aching emptiness. Pledges to rebuild and restore the area to its former stature have done nothing to ease the pain of concentrated…
What Is the Future of NATO?
posted by Joshua Foust on April 29, 2011 at 10:48 am
Yesterday I had the great pleasure to participate in a roundtable at The Atlantic Council, where we discussed the future of NATO in light of the Libyan intervention. The discussion was fairly wide-ranging, as one would expect it to be, covering topics from defense spending to the doctrine of R2P, or “Responsibility to Protect.” Audio…
Talking About Democracy in Kazakhstan
posted by Joshua Foust on April 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I had the pleasure of speaking at a panel about the elections in Kazakhstan at Georgetown University yesterday. While the discussion itself was off the record, I do want to say that I felt the participants, which included Dr. Sergei Gretsky of Georgetown and Dr. Daniel Burghart (also of Georgetown), had truly interesting things to…
Water Insecurity in the Middle East
posted by Lindsey Ross on April 28, 2011 at 1:34 pm
The effects of climate change threaten to harm economies, communities, and political stability around the globe. In the Middle East, a region which already suffers from political instability, increasing water scarcity is likely to increase the opportunity for conflict. A draft of a new World Bank and Arab League report to be released early next…
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