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Christoph Bertram

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Christoph Bertram is a former director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. 

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  1. Helmut Kohl’s Vision and Legacy
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    Helmut Kohl’s Vision and Legacy

    Jun 20, 2017 Christoph Bertram remembers a leader whose efforts to build trust enabled German reunification within a united Europe.

  2. Weak America = Weakened Europe

    Weak America = Weakened Europe

    Aug 3, 2007 Christoph Bertram

  3. Getting to "Yes" with Iran

    Getting to "Yes" with Iran

    Mar 23, 2007 Christoph Bertram

  4. Nato to Lebanon – but on one condition

    Nato to Lebanon – but on one condition

    Jul 31, 2006 Christoph Bertram

  5. Japan’s Kamikaze Isolation

    Japan’s Kamikaze Isolation

    Oct 26, 2005 Christoph Bertram

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    Accelerating Latin America’s Clean-Energy Revolution

    Patricia Espinosa & Lourdes Melgar tout the huge opportunities and identify the main challenges of the transition to renewables in the region.
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    What Anti-Trumpism Is Missing

    Daron Acemoglu urges Democrats to support working-class interests and priorities after many years of neglect.
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    Beware the New Consensus on the Global Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Despite an increasingly challenging economic and geopolitical environment, the global economy performed better than expected over the past year. But although analysts’ projections for 2023 were too pessimistic, it appears that consensus forecasts for the coming year may have have swung too far in the opposite direction.

     worries that domestic political divisions and market volatility could exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
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    The Future of China’s Financial System

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng assess the outcome of the country’s first Central Financial Work Conference in six years.
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    Mapping the Future of ESG at COP28

    Vijay Bains predicts that the upcoming climate summit in Dubai will build a global consensus on sustainable investing.
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    Cry for Milei’s Argentina

    Paola Subacchi cautions against the incoming leader’s pledge to establish the greenback as the sole legal tender.
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    Petrostates Must Take the Lead on Climate Finance

    Ban Ki-moon, et al.

    If COP28 is to be judged a success, the UAE, as the summit’s host, and other hydrocarbon producers should promise to dedicate some of the windfall oil and gas profits they earned last year to accelerating the green transition in the Global South. Doing so could encourage historic and current emitters to pay their fair share.

     urges oil-exporting countries to kickstart a program of green investment in the Global South at COP28.
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    Germany’s Debt Brake Is Breaking Its Economy

    Marcel Fratzscher warns that a flawed constitutional rule is undermining the country’s ability to pursue essential reforms.
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    Why COP28 Has Already Failed

    Marta Schaaf & Kristine Beckerle say that the UAE’s repression of dissidents and rights activists serves defenders of the climate status quo.

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