Marc Ambinder writes: So where does Hillary Clinton's foreign policy cabinet hang its hat for the next four years? Her main team consists of: Richard...
David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Bad bear – plus Buffet blows
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Karachi burns
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I love mah legacy
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Mark Abell – from Mumbai (updated x4)
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Britain sells Tibet?
That's what the New York Times thinks: As Western powers struggle with the huge scale of the measures needed to revive their economies, they have turned...
From the department of big numbers…
$7.4 trillion... $7.4 TRILLLION - that's what Bloomberg calculates the US government has now pledged to the bailout.
What’s worse than a bad bank?
The Citibank rescue is being described as a 'good bank/bad bank' deal. Not so, says Paul Kedrosky: Here is the gist: Citi will carve out $300-billion in...
Man with plan
Obama floats his stimulus plan: There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it's likely to get worse before...
Pessimism fulfilled
We may well see another dramatic weekend as the banking meltdown continues. It's just a week since I wondered whether Citigroup might be the next bank to...
“The most unpopular kid”
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Climate change – the President elect speaks
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Kilcullen close to despair
In an email exchange with George Packer, David Kilcullen sounds a pessimistic note about prospects in Afghanistan. The situation is 'dire' but there's a...
The long road
In our paper on Bretton Woods II (pdf), Alex and I provide rather a gloomy assessment of financial crisis - which we suggest is going to last longer than many...
A Bretton Woods II Worthy of the Name
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven on financial reform and wider multilateralism, published ahead of the G20 ‘Bretton Woods II’ Summit (November 2008).
Cato’s airy certainty
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Obama = Uncle Tom
From Ralph Nader - yes Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and the man who, in 2000, running to the left of Gore, did most to get Bush elected: To put it very...
Our destiny is shared
President-elect Obama to the world: And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around...
China’s emissions….
According to Reuters, the new China Energy Report (produced by various state-run scientific institutes) predicts massive rises in the country's carbon...
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