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Igor S. Ivanov

Igor S. Ivanov

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Igor S. Ivanov, former Russian Foreign Minister and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2007, is President of the Russian International Affairs Council.

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  1. Preventing Nuclear Conflict in Europe
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    Preventing Nuclear Conflict in Europe

    Feb 15, 2018 Des Browne, et al. call for urgent measures to reduce the growing risk of nuclear conflict.

  2. Ensuring Euro-Atlantic Security
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    Ensuring Euro-Atlantic Security

    Feb 16, 2017 Des Browne, et al. call on Western countries and Russia to cooperate on reducing shared existential threats.

  3. From Nuclear Safety to Nuclear Security
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    From Nuclear Safety to Nuclear Security

    Mar 24, 2015 Des Browne & Igor S. Ivanov urge governments to apply stress tests to all facilities where dangerous materials are used.

  4. Securing the Euro-Atlantic Community
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    Securing the Euro-Atlantic Community

    Feb 3, 2015 Des Browne, et al. propose a new way to resolve the Ukraine crisis and prevent future threats to regional stability.

  5. Russia’s European Prospects
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    Russia’s European Prospects

    Nov 23, 2012 Igor S. Ivanov

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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.
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    Banned By Germany

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Germany recently prohibited a Palestinian Congress from taking place in Berlin, arrested its Jewish supporters, and barred one of its organizers, Greece’s former finance minister, from entering the country. But the turn to repression is powerful evidence that the country’s pro-Israel political consensus is breaking down.

    sees in his case an effort to enforce with repression a pro-Israel political consensus that is breaking down.
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    China Should Emulate Taiwan’s Tech Policies

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng urge the Chinese government to follow the island's lead by embracing the financialization of innovation.
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    The Macron Moment

    Mark Leonard thinks the French president has the capability to provide the strategic leadership that Europe needs.
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    Is Climate Action China’s Trump Card?

    Li Shuo & Lauri Myllyvirta explain why the country’s emissions-reduction plan for 2035 could accelerate the fight against global warming.

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