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OIL PRICES, ENERGY PRICES
February 10, 2006
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
February 3, 2006
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
June 27, 2005
Op-Ed, The Bangkok Post
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
May / June 2000
Journal Article, Global Change
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
International Security
The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.
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Report
New Report from Harvard Kennedy School Researchers Calls for Changes to Biofuels Incentives
Despite pressure from biofuel critics, governments should avoid simplistic and precipitous changes in course such as rollback or moratoria on existing biofuels mandates or incentives, according to a new report from three Harvard Kennedy School researchers. Instead, the researchers urge governments to initiate an orderly, innovation-enhancing transition towards incentives targeted on multi-dimensional goals for biofuels development.
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Article
The Truth about Food
"...it is a mistake to see high prices as a proxy for actual hunger. Most of the world's hungry citizens do not get their food from the world market, and most who rely on the world market are not poor or vulnerable to hunger."
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Journal Article
Hedging Against Uncertainty: US Strategy in an Interdependent World
Energy is important, but energy independence is a dangerous myth. The U.S. National Petroleum Council recently observed: "There can be no U.S. energy security without global energy security." Oil flows in a world market and events anywhere affect the price of oil everywhere. There is no escaping these oil price shocks. Even if the United States were to substantially reduce its own oil consumption, there would be no immunity from the effects of high world oil prices that would determine domestic energy prices and ripple through the world economy. Geology and politics make the world deeply interdependent and policy should be crafted to promote and secure energy interdependence. Real energy security comes from robust energy systems with diversity and flexibility, not through isolation and energy autarky.
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Op-Ed
Running on Empty and Spreading the Blame
Who is to blame for $4.00 gasoline?
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