Saul Gomez

Bio

Saúl Acosta Gómez joined the Council's Global Policy Innovations program in April 2007. He is currently a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he studies democracy assistance and governance.

Prior to attending graduate school, Gomez served as legislative staff at the California State Assembly. He currently serves as staff to a member of the New York State Assembly and was recently appointed editor-in-chief of Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs.

Featured Work

Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World

OCT 2, 2007 Article

Book Review: Charm Offensive

Kurlantzick sees a need for the U.S. to counter China's soft power, but avoids making any ethical judgment on its questionable elements, specifically China's ...

Middelgrunden windmills outside Copenhagen. <br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andjohan/1022097482/" target="_blank">Andreas Johannsen</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

AUG 24, 2007 Article

Offsets, the Indulgences of Today?

More and more, Saul Gomez says, wealthy individuals and companies are offsetting their carbon consumption out of a sincere concern for the environment, for good ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviedunn/3927139869/">Davie Dunn</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 24, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Offsets, the Indulgences of Today?

More and more, wealthy individuals and companies are offsetting their carbon consumption out of a sincere concern for the environment, for good public relations, and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/73594239@N00/19292543/">Cesar Aponte</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

JUL 11, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Cap and (Fair) Trade

Climate change is rising on the agenda in many world capitals due in part to the emergence of market-based mechanisms and their embrace by both ...

Malaria mosquito. Photo courtesy of CDC (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg" target=_blank>PD</a>).

MAY 31, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: WHO Pushes Pharmaceutical Innovation

The innovation gap is especially troubling in the pharmaceutical industry, where only a small portion of funding goes toward the diseases that disproportionately affect developing ...

Protest in Cairo. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/zarwan/153534199/">E. Zarwan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

MAY 9, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Realist Democracy Promotion

Democracy's positive contributions to quality of life have caused some to elevate it to the status of a universal value. But universal value does not ...