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Soft Power Gain for Taiwan

Soft Power Gain for Taiwan

According to Reporters Without Borders’ global rankings last year, Taiwan has now become the freest country on the Asian continent.

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Paradoxical Legacy of a ‘Human Rights Icon’

Paradoxical Legacy of a ‘Human Rights Icon’

“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.” -Albert Einstein

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Greek Islanders To Be Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Greek Islanders To Be Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

On remote Greek islands, grandmothers have sung terrified little babies to sleep, while teachers, pensioners and students have spent months offering food, shelter, clothing and comfort to refugees who have risked their lives to flee war and terror.

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Celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

On Monday December 10, the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Parliament President Martin Schulz will represent the EU and receive the Nobel Prize in Olso. As discussed in a previous piece, the Peace Prize came as a surprise, but also marked an important turning point in […]

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A Nobel Peace Prize for Europe

A Nobel Peace Prize for Europe

    It all started with the aftermath of World War II and in the emotional and material rumbles of Europe. The visionary great men of Europe — Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer — understood that peace in Europe would only be possible through deep economic integration, strengthening an irreversible degree of cooperation […]

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Climate Risks

Climate Risks

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has produced four comprehensive Assessment Reports since 1990 detailing the science behind climate change, the impacts, ways to mitigate our radical forcing of the climate system, and ways to adapt to the clear, present, and intensifying dangers that this crisis engenders.  The IPCC has also produced some extremely […]

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Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai

The earth has lost a very, very good friend:  Dr. Wangari Maathai.  She was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, environmental activist, human rights campaigner, and a wonderful voice for reason in the face of the madness we so often do to our planet and ourselves.  She died this week at the age of 71 from […]

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The World Loses a Champion of Development in Wangari Maathai

The World Loses a Champion of Development in Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai, Nobel laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, passed away late Sunday night while undergoing cancer treatment in Nairobi. But she left the world having fully lived her 71 years, to the benefit of the rest of us. Like many prominent women her age, Maathai had to break through many […]

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80% Renewable – The Revolution in Energy

The Big Lie – or tired old axiom if you want to be polite – is that renewables can’t get the job done.  If you need to believe that, then you might as well believe that ignorance is strength.  As I noted here, and many times at this blog, renewables are blowing the doors down […]

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Global Markets: 2009 Year In Review

Global Markets: 2009 Year In Review

A Year-end Round-up of major events and happenings in the Global Markets, Global Economy & International Trade arena, naming the Global Markets & Foreign Policy blog’s Person-of-the-Year, and our outlook for 2010.

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Obama and Copenhagen

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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Temperature 101

Temperature 101

You may have been hearing about the contretemps regarding emails to and from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.  I have no particular desire now, frankly, to get into all the allegations, counter-allegations, etc., etc. that have been flying around in the news, the blogosphere and beyond.  There is a […]

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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The big ticket for today is that President Barack Hussein Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  What’s that got to do with climate change?  The press release from the Norwegian Nobel Committee says that, among his other accomplishments:  “Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting […]

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