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Successful Post-Kyoto leadership on climate policy requires three elements: stronger goals, effective implementation, and the participation of the United States and China.
In the last years of his life, William F. Buckley Jr., who died on February 27 at the age of 82, broke with many of his fellow conservatives by pronouncing the Iraq war a failure and calling for an end to the embargo on Cuba. He even expressed doubt as to whether George W. Bush is really a conservative--and he asked the same about neoconservatives.
Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in Taiwan’s 2008 presidential elections signal a shift in Taiwanese politics and an opportunity for better cross-strait relations. The United States must craft Taiwan policy to preserve peace and stability in the region.
Since its inception in Fall 2006, the series has addressed the most critical—and controversial—issues involving China's economic, socio-political, and military evolution and their policy implications for policy makers on Capitol Hill.
Taking us from the corporate boardrooms of America’s most powerful companies to a dinner meeting with Russia’s most notorious oligarch, from the secretive meetings of the Trilateral Commission and the Bohemian Grove to China’s upstart Boao Forum for Asia, Rothkopf draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives.
Jessica T. Mathews discussed the long term prospects for stability in Iraq, the political failure of the “surge”, and the interests of Iraq’s neighbors on China Radio International’s People in the Know.
U.S.–China climate cooperation is the crucial step toward a global climate agreement. Together both nations produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet they remain locked in a “suicide pact” -- each demanding that the other take responsibility.
When Barack Obama announced a year ago that he was running for president, I scoffed. How could a black man whose middle name is Hussein and who looks like he is 25 years old win the White House? To be sure, he was a U.S. senator, but he had been elected largely on a fluke when his toughest Democratic and Republican opponents were felled by scandals. "He'll fade by December," I assured anyone who would listen.
In a unique and timely new report, Carnegie's Karim Sadjadpour presents an in-depth political profile of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei based on a careful reading of three decades of his writings and speeches. Sadjadpour argues that Iran's Islamic government is more powerful than it has been ever been vis-à-vis the United States.
Carnegie's Karim Sadjadpour and other Iran experts comment on Iran’s upcoming parliamentary election.
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