JUN 20, 2008 • Podcast
The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India: Asian Realignments after the 1997 Financial Crisis
David Denoon argues that although China's rise has received much attention, much less has been given to the relative decline of the Pacific Rim states ...
JUN 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: It's Like Oil, But Different
Water shortages could be as lethal in the twenty-first century as terrorism and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, but the U.S. presidential candidates ...
JUN 18, 2008 • Podcast
The Future of the Automobile
General Motors' Larry Burns envisions the future: Electric cars that will deliver today's freedoms at more reasonable prices, and without today's environmental, safety, and congestion ...
JUN 17, 2008 • Podcast
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
"There's no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died," sighs Putin. In a funny and frightening talk, Marshall Goldman unravels the tangled links between ...
JUN 16, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Speaking Fairly
The rise of English as a global lingua franca is one of the most striking developments of the last few decades, but the use of ...
JUN 12, 2008 • Podcast
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
In this 2008 talk, Special Counsel and Advisor to John F. Kennedy Ted Sorensen recalls his life and times with JFK, including the dramas of desegregation ...
JUN 11, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Diplomatically Quiet on Zimbabwe
Matthew Hennessey interviews Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, on post-election unrest in Zimbabwe ...
JUN 11, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Rising Powers in Space
Balancing development and security in outer space will be an important international challenge in coming decades as rising powers force realignment here on Earth.