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  • Adapting to Global Change: Climate Displacement, Mega-Disasters, and the Next Generation of Leaders

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 16, 2015  //  By Theo Wilson
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    The world is more connected than ever before, but also more complex. Big, transnational trends like climate change, urbanization, and migration are changing the calculus of geopolitics, while local-level inequalities persist. “[Change] seems to be spinning around us so fast,” said John Hempelmann, president of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, which honors the legacy of the late senator from Washington State. How can today’s and tomorrow’s leaders adjust to global trends? [Video Below]

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  • The U.S. Energy Pivot: A New Era for Energy Security in Asia?

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    China Environment Forum  //  March 26, 2015  //  By Qinnan Zhou
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    The past decade has brought ground-shaking changes to global energy markets. The unconventional fuel boom has unexpectedly reduced U.S. dependence on oil imports, while in the Asia-Pacific region, energy-constrained nations are increasingly reliant on foreign sources to meet their soaring demand. With the U.S. slated to export liquid natural gas (LNG) to Asia as early as 2017, a new energy era has come.

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  • Safety and Security in the Global Youth Wellbeing Index

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 9, 2014  //  By Nicole Goldin

    Few would argue with the notion that socioeconomic development is contingent on peace, safety, and security. What goes for nations, goes for people too – especially young people.

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  • Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis

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    Choke Point  //  November 10, 2014  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The original version of this article appeared on Circle of Blue.

    There’s nothing demur about Mother Earth these days. She’s fuming and pushing back hard. Very hard.

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  • While China Waits on Shale Gas, Soaring Energy Demands Create Regional Tensions

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    China Environment Forum  //  October 15, 2014  //  By Qinnan Zhou
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    China’s energy investments are on the move, touching nearly every region of the globe from coal and liquefied natural gas imports from Australia to a recent natural gas agreement with Russia and expanded oil drilling in the South China Sea. [Video Below]

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  • Cautious Optimism: China’s Nuclear Energy Safety Measures Improving

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    China Environment Forum  //  October 6, 2014  //  By Darius Izad
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    Motivated in part by mounting public pressure to cut down on the smog created by more than 600 coal-fired power plants, China’s nuclear energy capacity is growing faster than any other country in the world.

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  • What Can Governments Do About Falling Birth Rates?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 2, 2014  //  By Paris Achenbach & Moses Jackson
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    “We have a fairly unique moment in the history of the world,” said Steven Philip Kramer, a professor at National Defense University, at the Wilson Center on April 17. “There’s never been a time when people have voluntarily produced fewer children than is necessary for sustaining the population.” [Video Below]

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  • Steven Philip Kramer on ‘The Other Population Crisis’

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    Friday Podcasts  //  May 23, 2014  //  By Moses Jackson
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    Ever since Thomas Malthus’ 18th-century treatise linked overpopulation with conflict and poverty, population growth has been a subject of concern and controversy. But does population decline warrant similar attention? According to Steven Philip Kramer, the subject of this week’s podcast and author of The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do About Falling Birth Rates, it does.

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