got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got The United States Forgot Its Strategy for Winning Cold Wars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020Stephen Walt writes that arguments against U.S. offshore balancing misunderstand history. The strategy that worked against the Soviet Union can work against China. Full Article
got Assessing the Obstacles and Opportunities in a Future Israeli-Syrian-American Peace Negotiation By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:45:00 -0400 Introduction: In the ebb and flow of Middle East diplomacy, the two interrelated issues of an Israeli-Syrian peace settlement and Washington’s bilateral relationship with Damascus have gone up and down on Washington’s scale of importance. The election of Barack Obama raised expectations that the United States would give the two issues the priority they had not received during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration. Candidate Obama promised to assign a high priority to the resuscitation of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and separately to “engage” with Iran and Syria (as recommended by the Iraq Study Group in 2006).In May 2009, shortly after assuming office, President Obama sent the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, and the senior director for the Middle East in the National Security Council, Daniel Shapiro, to Damascus to open a dialogue with Bashar al-Asad’s regime. Several members of Congress also travelled to Syria early in Obama’s first year, including the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, John Kerry, and the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Howard Berman. In addition, when the president appointed George Mitchell as special envoy to the Middle East, Mitchell named as his deputy Fred Hof, a respected expert on Syria and the Israeli-Syrian dispute. Last summer, both Mitchell and Hof visited Damascus and began their give and take with Syria. And yet, after this apparent auspicious beginning, neither the bilateral relationship between the United States and Syria, nor the effort to revive the Israeli-Syrian negotiation has gained much traction. Damascus must be chagrined by the fact that when the Arab-Israeli peace process is discussed now, it is practically equated with the Israeli-Palestinian track. This paper analyzes the difficulties confronting Washington’s and Jerusalem’s respective Syria policies and offers an approach for dealing with Syria. Many of the recommendations stem from lessons resulting from the past rounds of negotiations, so it is important to understand what occurred. Downloads Download Full Report - English Authors Itamar Rabinovich Full Article
got How India should deal with Gotabaya’s Sri Lanka By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 07:54:40 +0000 Full Article
got At climate summits, the urgency from the streets must be brought to the negotiating table By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:49:49 +0000 COP25, the annual global climate summit that ended last weekend in Madrid, offered a visible public spectacle, but little substantive progress. Part of the problem was that the summit — technically known as the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention to Combat Climate Change (UNFCCC) — was… Full Article
got Welcome to the future: Three things Back to the Future got right By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:30:00 -0400 Good morning and welcome to the "future." At approximately 4:29 p.m. Hill Valley time on Oct. 21, Doc Brown and Marty McFly arrive at the present day. For many millennials especially, the 1985 film series Back to the Future represented the far-flung fantastical future that many dreamed would come. But how does the Reagan-era vision of a future where we don't need roads compare to our daily lives today? Sadly, you probably came to work today on the same street you may have trodden as a child back in 1985 without a hover board. But our future is still pretty fantastic, and many of the outlandish futuristic devices you saw in the 1989 film Back to the Future II are closer than you think—or already here. Here are three predictions that the film made that today might actually turn the head of an ‘80s time traveler Drone proliferation When Doc Brown and Marty McFly arrived in 2015, the sky was filled with more flying cars than the drones that sometimes dot our skies, but the film did point to some potential uses for unmanned remote flying devices. In the future, the film envisioned drones for walking the dog and even remote photography drones reporting on the day's news. While drones today don't exactly fill these roles, that future is perhaps closer than you think. "Private actors will soon operate drones in equal if not greater numbers than the government," Brookings Fellow Wells Bennett wrote in a report on civilian use of drones last year. Amazon has tested drones to aid in home and business delivery. CNN has been given clearance by the government to explore the use of drones for reporting. Even law enforcement and public safety officials have used drones to aid in policing and fighting fires. The widespread use of drones in daily life is probably still part of our future rather than our present in 2015, but regulations for this future are being written today. Federal regulators just this week announced that recreational drones will need to be registered. Last year as part of our project on civilian robotics, Gregory McNeal offered his own suggestions for federal and state regulators on how best to tackle civilian drone regulations. Cybernetic humans and wearable technology In the 1989 film, Marty faces off against his son's cybernetic bully, Griff Tannen. The bullies of the present don't exactly resemble Griff or Locutus of Borg, but cybernetics is closer than you think—even resting in your palm right now. Taking a walk through Hill Valley in the real 2015, a time traveler might see several pedestrians immersed in their smartphones or glancing at notifications on their wearable devices. In our homes, virtual reality is becoming more prominent as well. Systems like Oculus and Google Cardboard resemble very closely the remote television visors worn by Marty's kids in the future. "The proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude that [cell phones] were an important feature of human anatomy," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2014 opinion referencing the cybernetic future we are living today. Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong acknowledge in their report on the emerging cyborg future that the connection we have with technology is becoming more personal. While surveillance laws of the past might make distinctions between human tissue and the devices we use in our daily lives, Wittes and Chong argue that perhaps the separation between the human being and technology in some cases is no longer there—and the law should adapt to acknowledge this. Flying cars and the transportation of the future The most-often panned prediction of the film is admittedly the most disappointing—there are no flying cars in our future. This has been a fantasy for even Baby Boomers who were thrilled by the Jetsons' view of the 21st Century. Flying cars do exist in a limited form, but they are more accurately described as ultra-portable planes that require a pilot’s license to fly. However, the future of transportation is even better than Marty or Doc Brown ever realized; they just needed to travel a few more years in the future to see it happen. Driverless cars have the potential to be the biggest seismic shift in transportation that many of us will experience in our lifetime. Numerous automotive makers and even Google are preparing for the autonomous future. Imagine your vehicle circling the parking lot to pick you up after a film; traversing rush hour traffic to deliver your daughter to softball practice; even serving as designated driver on Friday night after drinks at the bar. The future seems like a fantasy, but liability concerns about whom to sue when an automated vehicle gets in a fender bender—or worse—clouds this would-be future. "While liability will always be important with respect to motor vehicle operation, automation will dramatically increase safety on the highways by reducing both the number and severity of accidents," writes John Villasenor in his report on how to tackle liability in the driverless era. Despite many reservations about driverless cars, Villasenor argues that current liability law frameworks would be well equipped to address concerns. Of course, whether the DeLorean Motor Company will come out of mothballs and produce a driverless DeLorean remains to be seen. Discuss the future's impact on the modern workforce At least according to Robert Zemeckis, we've arrived in the future. Not that you’re here, join us at 2 p.m. Oct. 26 when we'll discuss one of the important consequences of all of this technological automation: its impact on the workforce and the availability of social benefits. Authors Darrell M. WestNick McClellan Full Article
got Beyond the Berlin Wall: The forgotten collapse of Bulgaria’s ‘wall’ By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:48:28 +0000 It has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The consequences of this event for Germany and for Europe to this day take central stage in discussions about the end of the Cold War. Essays on the repressive nature of the regime in East Germany and the wall’s purposeful construction to keep… Full Article
got Cuba’s forgotten eastern provinces By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:54:01 +0000 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The five provinces of eastern Cuba (Oriente) have played central roles in the forging of the island’s history. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, sugarcane plantations generated fabulous wealth and Santiago de Cuba boasted a thriving middle class, even as most of the peasantry were relegated to grinding poverty and social neglect.… Full Article
got Cuba’s forgotten eastern provinces: Testing regime resiliency By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:34:53 +0000 Full Article
got US-DPRK negotiations: Time to pivot to an interim agreement By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:11:22 +0000 Executive Summary: If and when U.S.-North Korea working-level talks resume, as agreed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un at their brief June 30 meeting at the Demilitarized Zone, prospects for overcoming the current impasse will depend heavily on whether the Trump administration is now prepared to recognize that the North is… Full Article
got Negotiating with Iran: How Best to Reach Success By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Negotiators from the P5 plus 1—Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany—will sit down with their Iranian counterparts on April 5-6 for another round of talks regarding Iran’s nuclear program. These talks take place as concern grows in the international community that Tehran is nearing the point where it could acquire nuclear weapons… Full Article
got Iran-P5+1 Nuclear Negotiations: The Road Ahead By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: A year of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 partners based on the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), adopted in Geneva in November 2013, has produced significant progress, but a comprehensive deal has so far proved elusive. With important differences reportedly remaining but with the parties actively engaged in the run-up to the JPOA’s current… Full Article
got A quick and dirty glossary of climate negotiation jargon and abbreviations By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:35:29 -0500 Some of the most frequently used jargon you’ll want to know before the Paris climate change talks, accompanied by user-friendly definitions. Full Article Business
got DIY Homes Using Recycled Pallet Wood - Appalachian Gothic Architecture (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:46 -0500 From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students, TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn't have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury. Full Article Design
got Leonardo DiCaprio's Green Oscar, Salma Hayek's Got Milk, and More By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:25:00 -0500 My favorite eco-star might of gotten snubbed by Oscar, but Leo's enivormental work gets a green prize. The actor/activist was honored with the International Green Film Award by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Full Article Living
got Etsy might not change the world, but it's the best we've got for now By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:00:00 -0400 The shopping world is rife with corruption and exploitation, and while it would be lovely for companies to mend their evil ways, that's highly unlikely. In the meantime, Etsy provides a decent alternative for conscientious shoppers. Full Article Living
got Remember the girl hit by car while on Facetime? The driver just got charged. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:07:50 -0400 Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking! Full Article Transportation
got SeaWorld got caught in a pretty fishy lie By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:32:48 -0400 Company higher-ups sold stocks while telling investors that everything was fine. Full Article Science
got Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn't Strip By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:23:01 -0400 Sarah and I have spent the better Full Article Transportation
got How environmentalists got one firm to quit deforestation By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:15:00 -0400 Activists get one firm to agree to stop clearing Indonesian forests for paper plantations. Full Article Business
got Photographer documents India's forgotten yet still remarkable water stepwells By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 07:00:00 -0400 These impressive feats of architecture and engineering are one of India's traditional methods of water conservation. Now threatened by disuse and a growing water crisis, one photojournalist is documenting them before they are forgotten. Full Article Living
got You don't need money if you've got Bunz By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:54:06 -0400 This is not your usual trading site; it is much more of a community. Full Article Living
got Why we should fix what we've got instead of starting from scratch By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:03:11 -0400 Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work. Full Article Design
got This professor just got arrested for making climate change graffiti By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:11:45 -0500 Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention. Full Article Science
got What flat-earthers have got right By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:59:38 -0400 A lot of people believe the Earth is flat. It's silly ... or is it? Full Article Science
got The Rush-Bagot Treaty that demilitarized the Great Lakes is 200 years old today By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:57:29 -0400 It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment Full Article Business
got In praise of penguins: We've got babies! By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:12:21 -0500 What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins? Full Article Science
got We've got twins! Extremely rare panda cub twins born in Atlanta zoo By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:00:16 -0400 Pandas, which are one of the better known endangered species out there, just aren't very good at breeding, making their survival more problematic than if, say, they had cubs by the bucketload every year. Full Article Science
got FDA Punts On Banning Bisphenol A; NRDC is Outraged, But I Think They Got It Right By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:51:00 -0400 It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't. Full Article Business
got Got a locker full of stuff? Deposit it in the Furniture Bank By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:40:42 -0400 Why are so many people renting lockers when the stuff can be put to good use by people who really need it? Full Article Design
got Tar Sands Spill in Alberta: "This Is Not Natural -- It's Got Nothing to Do With Nature" By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:31:23 -0400 Government officials have no idea how to clean up these spills from a process that oil companies claim is more "environmentally friendly." Full Article Energy
got How we got "locked in" to fossil fuel consumption By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:48:41 -0500 More on why our personal consumption habits matter in the climate emergency. Full Article Business
got How 14 flowers got their names By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:42:22 -0500 From saucy to the divine, the origins of some flower names add even more to the loveliness of their blooms. Full Article Living
got The mini-computer market just got a lot more crowded with this $15 64-bit entry By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:50:35 -0500 Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices. Full Article Technology
got The smartphone that just got smarter – by testing water and treating food By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:39:25 -0400 A 24-year-old food scientist at the University of Copenhagen has developed a prototype that could potentially save millions of lives. Full Article Technology
got Stunning Public Kindergarten At Neighborhood In Need In Bogota By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:54:25 -0500 Do you know how much of the so-called green or cool architecture is often for expensive hotels, government or office buildings? Well, in this case, it's the complete opposite. Full Article Design
got Bogota's Amazing Bikeways! (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:34:25 -0400 A Model for the World This video by our friends at Streetfilms is not only great because it shows us a powerful example of bike infrastructure improving a city, but also because it shows how you can change the perception of riding a bike among citizens Full Article Transportation
got Bogota's Amazing Bus Rapid Transit Keeps Getting Better (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:01:50 -0400 Moving 1.7 People Every Single Day!This is how bus rapid transit (BRT) should be! TransMilenio's 104 stations allow the citizens of Bogota (in Colombia) to get to work, move around the city, run errands... All of that very conveniently and quickly - Full Article Transportation
