The world community is being forced to navigate a transition, over the next few decades, to a future that must entail a radical shift away from dependence on hydrocarbons. The pressure for change arising from the 1973 "oil price shock" is mounting with each year, despite the periodic respites...

Auf der UN-Klimakonferenz in Cancun im Dezember 2010 haben sich die teilnehmenden Staaten auf ein Maßnahmenpaket geeinigt, das auch einen globalen Grünen Klimafonds enthält. Der "Design-Prozess" dieses Fonds steht jetzt auf der politischen Agenda. Eine verbesserte Koordinierung der...

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973 - 2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

"This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...