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CGD in the News
September 29, 2014
Again, the relative importance of global threats from climate change to pandemic disease has grown over the past 30 years, but the Cold War mindset helps explain why the foreign policy establishment has been so flat-footed in its response to rising temperatures and the Ebola outbreak–these pro...
CGD in the News
June 09, 2014
As military operations ramp down in Afghanistan and President Obama opines that U.S. military action “cannot be the only—or even primary—component of our leadership in every instance,” it’s time to look for other ways to preserve the peace. In post-conflict environments...
CGD in the News
May 28, 2014
When the White House announced that the CIA would no longer use vaccination campaigns as cover for intelligence gathering, it came as good news for the renewed global fight to eradicate polio. The effort has been bogged down in Pakistan, where vaccination workers face assassination from the Taliban ...
New from CGD
January 19, 2009
Braving freezing temperatures and gusty winds, hundreds of development experts and members of the policy community packed a Washington hotel ballroom for a discussion with David Gergen on the outlook for global development policy under new U.S. president Barack Obama. Gergen, an advisor to four pres...