by Steve Clemons Tuesday August 10, 2010 THE WASHINGTON NOTE In an important article titled “The Point of No Return” to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn’t realize at the time and still have a hard time believing. President George W. Bush knocked back Dick Cheney’s wing of the […]
by Kurt Volker Sunday August 12, 2010 FOREIGN POLICY On the energy front, the European Union is financing interconnectors linking Central Europe to Germany’s and Western Europe’s gas pipeline network. Proponents of the Nabucco gas pipeline — intended to bring Azerbaijani and possibly Iraqi or Central Asian natural gas to Europe independent of Russia’s Gazprom […]
by Kurt Volker Sunday August 08, 2010 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE “We should build a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation, including an international fuel bank, so that countries can access peaceful power without increasing the risks of proliferation. … We must harness the power of nuclear energy on behalf of our efforts to combat climate change, […]
With $4.28 trillion in commercial sales, transatlantic trade between the United States and Europe is the most important foreign commercial market for each side. This annual report conducted by Brookings and written by Daniel Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan offers the most up-to-date analysis on transatlantic job sourcing, investment, and trade for all 50 US states and all […]
Globalization has dramatically changed how the world economy functions. Daniel Hamilton & Joseph Quinlan analyze who is winning and who is losing in this new model as well as the impact on areas such as job growth, GDP growth, investment, and trade. Globalization effects governments, companies, consumer behavior, and public policy. Hamilton and Quinlan lay […]