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The Risks of Geo-engineering the Planet

Konrad Ott | Internationale Politik | March 2010
The solar radiation management (SRM) represents the last great temptation of the industrialized world to continue its energy-intensive lifestyle and to forgo costly and inconvenient mitigation and adaptation. The costs to the rest of the world would be immense, ...More

Geo-Engineering: Researching on a Global "Sun Block"

Global Sun Block | Calgary University | March 2010
Faced with the grim reality of global warming, one researcher or the other may have dreamed of coming up with a type of sun block for the planet. This dream may yet come to pass. Canadian scientists are confident that they will be able to ...More

Rethinking Nanomaterial Governance

Ismael Rafols | University of Sussex | March 2010
Regulating nanomaterial is indeed difficult: For one, it is nearly impossible to intervene in early development phases - for example to ensure environmentally-friendly design - since the final application of the material may yet be unknown at this point. Any type of ...More

The West Needs Turkey in Europe

F. Stephen Larrabee | Rand Corportation | March 2010
Discussions on Turkey's EU membership tend to neglect the fact that the country's strategic significance has skyrocketed since the end of the Cold War. From the standpoint of Western interests, Turkey plays a key role in conflict resolution from the Balkans to the ...More

Corruption is Afghanistan's Greatest Problem

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | March 2010
According to nearly 60% of Afghans, corruption is their country's greatest problem, and not the precarious security situation. Hours spent waiting in lines, weeklong delays in obtaining necessary licenses from local bureaucrats have led to every second ...More

Immigration Policy as a Development Tool

Michael Clemens | Center for Global Development | March 2010
The sad truth of the matter is that global income distribution in the year 2010 looks not so very different from that under the Apartheid regime in South Africa. In spite of a myriad of development projects, there is still a great chasm between rich and poor ...More

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 | Center for a New American Security | 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