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Natural resources empower the world's most coercive regimes. Tyrants, terrorists, and armed groups use resource money to bolster their grip on power. For decades resource-fueled autocrats and extremists have committed human rights violations while We ...


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http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=2861 Simon Curtis September 26, 2014 The World Financial Review Global Cities Global Cities ...


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Kris Hartley is an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies, Education University of Hong Kong. He researches development policy in Asia with a focus on innovation and technology. Kris is also an affiliated scholar at the Center f ...


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Leadership supporters at the  President’s Circle level or higher are invited to join Maria Damanaki, Global Managing Director for Oceans at The Nature Conservancy, and former EU Commissioner of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, for a private roundtable disc ...


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The goal for COP21 was clear—and clearly ambitious: to commit nations to pursue an aggressive path to keep global warming below the 2-degree Celsius threshold agreed by many scientists as critical. Yet the road to implementation remains as difficult as ev ...


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The wave of refugees and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, and other countries in crisis continues to grow, and asylum seekers continue to face obstacles in western and northern Europe. The United States and Canada have largely been spared in thi ...


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Noah Toly is a professor of urban studies and politics and international relations at Wheaton College, where he directs the Center for Urban Engagement, and he teaches global cities at the Free University of Berlin's Center for Global Politics. He ha ...


Director, Pritzker Forum on Global Cities Vanessa Vardon joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in early 2016 and is currently the director of the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities, the Council's signature international conference on global citie ...