List of Energy and the Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Failed States Index
Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FP and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Recipe for Failure
Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from the foreign-policy world's leading predictioneer.
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The Oil Shield
Iran is commanding the world's attention as the ayatollahs accelerate their race for the bomb. But the timetable for talks -- or a nuclear crisis -- is not being shaped by centrifuges, uranium, or reactors. It's about the security only a barrel of oil can provide.
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The First Law of Petropolitics
Iran's president denies the Holocaust, Hugo Chávez tells Western leaders to go to hell, and Vladimir Putin is cracking the whip. Why? They know that the price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions. It's the First Law of Petropolitics, and it may be the axiom to explain our age.
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Who Wins in Iraq?
Newspaper headlines consistently remind us of the failures coming out of Iraq. The number of U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives continues to climb. The deaths of Iraqi civilians far exceed what almost anyone expected. And insurgent attacks are growing stronger and more deadly. But, if wars always produce losers, it is also true that most wars have a fair share of winners, too. So, we would like to ask, four years into the fighting, what institutions, countries, ideas, or individuals are better off because of the war? Who, in essence, are Iraq's winners? Plus, a special essay by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Expert Sitings: Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas is a columnist for Britain's New Statesman magazine and the author of High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. His blog can be found at marklynas.org.
