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Japan. After Suga’s exit what comes next for Japan (Rikki Kersten, East Asia Forum)

In the time of COVID-19, competence in managing the pandemic is a vital criterion for reward or punishment at the polls for democratic leaders....

MENA Region-Water Crisis. Water Crisis in the MENA region (Farwa Aamer, Stimson Center)

Climate change is exacerbating one of the most grueling challenges of our times—water scarcity. Rising temperatures, recurrent droughts, and diminished river flows are endangering...

9/11-Arms Control. Control A New Paradigm for Terrorism: September 11 and Strategic Trade Controls to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Richard...

I walked six miles from downtown Washington to home as the buses had stopped running on that beautiful fall weather day, with almost no...

9/11-China. China’s Rise Post-9/11 (Yun Sun, Stimson Center)

The 9/11 attacks in 2001 are perhaps the most consequential events of the post-Cold War era that, for the time being, changed the trajectory...

Abraham Accords. The Old Peace Treaties vs. the Abraham Accords (Frank Musmar, BESA Center)

President Bill Clinton watches King Hussein and PM Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands, October 1994, image via Israel GPO Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt...

COP26. Public investors look to COP26 for climate progress (Marsha Vande Berg, OMFIF)

The momentum behind sustainable finance in today’s marketplace is due in no small part to the catalytic role of institutional investors, who early on...

Europe/Sustainable Finance. Transparency and disclosures only first step in climate change battle (Kate Fowler, OMFIF)

The sustainable finance disclosures regulation is a key initiative emerging from the European Union’s 2018 action plan on sustainable finance. Active ownership will be a crucial instrument for...

Climate Risk-Macroeconomic Management. Time for central banks to stop dithering over climate (Urjit Patel, OMFIF)

After a drop in 2020 due to Covid-19, global greenhouse gas emissions will grow this year and again in 2022. It gets worse. According...

DACH Region. DACH-focused funds primed to invest in decentralised finance (Vsevolod Michalevsky, OMFIF)

Compared to traditional financial instruments, consumerisation of investment in digital assets is at an early stage. This is despite the disruptive potential of blockchain...

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