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Sebastián Strauss

Sebastián Strauss

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Sebastián Strauss is a senior research analyst and a coordinator for strategic engagements at the Brookings Institution. 

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  1. The Key to Global Climate Success
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    The Key to Global Climate Success

    Jul 15, 2021 Kemal Derviş & Sebastián Strauss call for more long-term financing to accelerate emerging and developing economies’ green transitions.

  2. Can Multilateral Cooperation Coexist with Great-Power Rivalry?
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    Can Multilateral Cooperation Coexist with Great-Power Rivalry?

    Apr 21, 2021 Kemal Derviş & Sebastián Strauss assess prospects for US-China collaboration on economic and climate policy amid rising bilateral tensions.

  3. The Decarbonization Paradox
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    The Decarbonization Paradox

    Feb 17, 2021 Kemal Derviş & Sebastián Strauss explain why achieving a net-zero global economy by 2050 may be both seemingly impossible and inevitable.

  4. How Europe Can Work with Biden
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    How Europe Can Work with Biden

    Nov 12, 2020 Kemal Derviş & Sebastián Strauss argue that closer transatlantic cooperation on key policy issues can strengthen support for multilateralism.

  5. Multilateralism for the Masses
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    Multilateralism for the Masses

    Sep 7, 2020 Kemal Derviş & Sebastián Strauss advance a vision of global cooperation that can counter populist narratives at the UN General Assembly.

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    The Indians Dividing MAGA

    Shashi Tharoor shows how one immigrant group became central to the “civil war” within Donald Trump’s base.
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    Shock Therapy for Multilateralism

    Harold James considers what another Donald Trump presidency will, and will not, mean for global cooperation.
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    Will Trump Fire the Fed?

    Kenneth Rogoff

    Despite Donald Trump’s assurances that he will not seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, there is little doubt that the US president-elect aims to gain greater influence over the Fed’s decision-making. Such interference could drive up long-term interest rates, damaging the American economy.

     worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.
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    Crypto’s Unholy Choir

    Andrés Velasco hears a chorus of deceivers, demagogues, dictators, and tax dodgers singing Donald Trump’s praises.
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    What Are the BRICS Good For?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Following the addition of new members to the BRICS, some observers believe that the group has a good chance of becoming the new lodestar of global politics and international affairs. But the organization is neither representative enough nor sufficiently united to lead others.

     explains why the group of major emerging economies will not become the new fulcrum of world politics.
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    MAGA Goes to Panama

    Ruti Teitel asks whether the United States ever became truly reconciled to giving up control of the canal it built.
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    China Won’t Save Labour’s Britain

    Chris Patten urges British policymakers to focus instead on crafting polices that really can promote economic recovery.
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    The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty of the Trump Economy

    Nouriel Roubini considers what the US president-elect's promised policy agenda will mean for growth and inflation.
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    Ban Solar Geoengineering

    Mohammed Usrof, et al. predict that the controversial technology will foist upon young people yet another crisis they did not create.

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