Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year is consumed by transportation. Any effective strategy to meet U.S. and global climate protection goals therefore requires that oil consumption in the transport sector be significantly reduced.

Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and fifteen months after the departure of U.S. combat troops, the outlook for Iraqi stability, security and democracy remains deeply uncertain.

Two years after the democratic revolutions in several Arab countries, the economic situation in the region remains precarious.

India enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005 to implement an ambitious, demand-driven employment-creation program through projects that improve agricultural productivity and alleviate land degradation.

In his first public event since stepping down as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Marc Grossman discusses efforts to reach a political settlement and the future of American diplomacy in the region.

In November, the EU will convene a landmark summit of the Eastern Partnership, bringing together European heads of state with leaders of the six former Soviet Eastern Partnership countries.

Although the Obama administration has pledged to formulate its nuclear policy around the concept of strategic stability, there is major disagreement on the meaning of concept and whether it is a sound basis for policy.

Following last October’s elections, Georgia is living through an unprecedented state of “cohabitation” between president and prime minister and a very lively parliament.

Moisés Naím hosted a lively conversation about his new book with columnist Thomas Friedman and Carnegie's Jessica Mathews.

Despite its negative impacts on air, water, and land resources, coal currently is and will continue to be a key component in the Chinese energy composition.