(As a parenthesis, I’d note one policy context when an essentially zero discount rate is applied — radioactive waste disposal, where the depositories are required to prevent leakage for 10000 years — somewhat ironic when we can’t plan the rest of energy policy even 30 years ahead...
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effective foreign policy or politics or economics can’t be improvised, the speed of the networks now outstrips the velocity of our decisions — even as citizens expect reactions at the ever-faster pace of their own connection. Think about the speed with which answers are expected...
legacy of the Iranian revolution that established a state rooted in religion. Now, nearly four decades old, the Revolutionary Guard’s rise to power remains the catalyst for Islamic sectarian division today, releasing forces of fury once confined first by Ottoman rule and then by...
From: Katherine Keating Sent: 10/31/2011 8:21:27 AM To: Katherine Keating Subject: After Words Dear Friends, I wanted to share with you the forward to my father's new book 'After Words'. He truly is an inspiration and so is his writing. The book, which is a compilation of his spe...
Cite as: 586 U.S. (2019) 13 BREYER, J., dissenting 1502. Some of these organizations, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), themselves believe they do not need broad immunity in commercial areas, and they have waived it. See, e.g., Articles of Agreement of the...
…le 6. NYT Arabs Will Be Free Roger Cohen March 28, 2011 -- Three Middle Eastern countries have been conspicuous for their stability in the storm. They are Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. An odd mix, you might say, but they have in common that they are places where people vote. D...
no contradiction. Indeed, China is now experiencing its own cultural renaissance, fueled by its new affluence. The duality of the Chinese story is reflected in the West's schizophrenic response to it. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao,...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex-...
Eye on the Market | November 21, 2011 J.P Morgan Topic: The quixotic search for energy solutions Wind should play an important role, but unless there is a high-voltage, high-capacity, high-density grid to accompany it (as in Northern Europe), or electricity storage, the variabi...
support other parallel solutions, including the political one. But FSA [has] become a jungle. ... My recommendation is... to start working on elite [forces that can]... initiate key attacks plus help as a buffer from potential warlords and fights among fragmented FSA factions. Pl...
…o visited Japan in March, 2010 NOBEL CHARITABLE TRUST Michael Nobel Trustee, Nobel Family Society Former Chairman of the Nobel Charitable Trust in Switzerland Former Chairman of the Appeal of the Peace Prize Laureates Foundation. yN [Michael Nobel’s Profile] Dr. Nobel was b...
…ires engagement in goodwill and determination by both sides and of course at least Turkey, if not Turkey and Greece together? Why would Greek Cypriots want a resolution as long as they enjoy alone the “sole legitimate government” of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot part of the isla...
I. ‘ bs P Qa LA A RELL Pr Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017 = Global Legal Developments Nations around the world have recently passed or are considering enacting an array of measures decrim- inalizing cannabis, legalizing it for medical use or, in a few cases, leg...
…er 11, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-10/japan-reasserts-influence-as-china-rises. NEW ZEALAND The issue of Chinese influence operations in New Zealand began to attract significant attention in September 2017 when Anne-Marie Brady, a professor at the Univ...
I wish to express my opposition to the World Calendar Reform proposal soon to come before the United Nations. This proposal