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Working Towards a More Sustainable Food System

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  • Claire McCleskey
April 26, 2012
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"How To Run The World" By Parag Khanna | NPR

April 16, 2012

In “How to Run the World,” geo-political expert and economist Parag Khanna explores complex questions about how the world can deal with a changed global landscape in a more effective way. According to Khanna, 21st century diplomacy is beginning to ...

China’s Strategic Food Concerns

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  • Rei Tang
April 13, 2012
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In my last post, I wrote about the recent National Intelligence Council report on global water security. Here’s the gist of it:

Bahrain Hosts Iiss Geo-Economics And Strategy Seminar | Groundreport

April 2, 2012

In the first session, Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, argued that policy-makers need to understand the complexity of risk in the modern world, saying that: “The paradox of the twenty-first century economy is that while it ...

Strategic Resources: The NIC Looks at Water

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  • Rei Tang
March 30, 2012
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On March 22, the National Intelligence Council, a senior body of U.S. government intelligence analysts, released an unclassified report on global water security. The report assesses the effect of global water problems on geopolitics to 2040, the next thirty years. Annual global water requirements will reach 6,900 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2030, 40 percent above current sustainable water supplies.

America’s Pent-Up Demand

  • By
  • Patrick C. Doherty,
  • New America Foundation
March 26, 2012

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is looking hard for demand. Without a “more-rapid expansion of production and demand from producers and consumers,” the Fed chairman does not see the recent employment gains as “sustainable.” That’s an understatement.

Death to the McMansion

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  • Patrick C. Doherty,
  • New America Foundation
March 20, 2012 |

Recently, Japan and Korea have begun to express deep concerns about the “ability of the United States to address profound problems in its political and economic system.”

The Business Case for Sustainability

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  • Rei Tang
March 19, 2012
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The MIT Sloan Management Review in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group recently released a report, “Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point.” In a survey of over 4,000 managers from 113 countries, the study found “70% of companies have placed sustainability permanently on their management agendas.”

Sustainability is here and it is the future. It is transforming companies, commercial networks, and industries. Will the tipping point soon reach government?

America's Waning Influence

  • By
  • Rosa Brooks,
  • New America Foundation
February 1, 2012 |

Is America in decline? Is our global influence waning?

Expect that question to get plenty of airtime as the presidential campaign heats up. According to the Republicans, President Obama's fundamental foreign policy problem is that he thinks America is a fading power and all we can hope for is to "manage the decline."

Alpine Ambivalence: Reflections On Davos 2012 | National Geographic

January 30, 2012

Having absorbed the adulation from writers such as Parag Khanna, as well as condemnations from critics of contemporary capitalism such as Noam Chomsky, I will provide my own observations of spending a very full five days immersed from 7am to midnight ...

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