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China, Climate and Trade
January 2, 2010 4 min. read

If you know me or have been reading this blog with any regularity, you know I’m a skeptic.  Not about climate change but about China.  I made an analysis several years back that, in retrospect, seems mistaken.  I perceived that the economic and political pressures of the liberal democracies would push and pull China toward […]

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Obama and Copenhagen
December 12, 2009 5 min. read

I have not been, like most of the rest of the climate change cognoscenti, writing nonstop about Copenhagen this week.  I have been working on reviewing thesis work from students in the MS in Global Affairs program at NYU where I teach on climate change.  I’ve had one blockbuster thesis on how to make the […]

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World Leadership Forum 2009
September 26, 2009 4 min. read

This year’s annual World Leadership Forum from the Foreign Policy Association was keynoted by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.  He gave a fascinating speech calling on the US to resume its leadership in the world and to be supported in this by “…a new ‘driving centre’ of global politics and the global economy – a […]

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