Putin’s Syria Move Raises Russian Profile

Putin’s Syria Move Raises Russian Profile

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Vladimir Putin, determined to revive Russia’s status as a global power, has rapidly mobilized forces to bolster the Assad regime in Syria. He orchestrated a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the September UN General Assembly meeting, to give the appearance that he is taking charge of ending the Islamic State’s expansion in Iraq and Syria, explains Thomas Graham, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs based at Yale University. The move carries risks, and the United States still has great capacity to influence the region with its response.

Hidden Story in China’s FDI Statistics

Hidden Story in China’s FDI Statistics

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Investors around the world seek secure places to store assets. Chinese firms and individuals hold enormous amounts of liquid money, and many seek to diversify with non-Chinese assets. Farok J. Contractor, professor at Rutgers, suggests that Chinese firms may be creating subsidiaries to ease transfers, which explains why as much as 70 percent of outbound foreign direct investment capital from China flows to Caribbean nations and Hong Kong.

Elizabeth Kolbert on The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert on The Sixth Extinction

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New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.” The book explores the five major mass extinction events that have occurred on the Earth over the last half billion years. Kolbert contrasts these prior mass extinctions with the sixth major mass extinction event, which we are in the midst of today. This time, instead of an asteroid of a sudden glaciation event, humans are the culprit.

Interview with Lisa Dale, Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Interview with Lisa Dale, Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

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Lisa Dale, the new associate director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy talks to Josh Galperin, the outgoing associate director, about her new role, experience, and vision for the Center.

Mary Evelyn Tucker on Religion and Ecology

Mary Evelyn Tucker on Religion and Ecology

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Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar of Confucianism and senior lecturer on ecology and religion at the Yale School of Forestry and Yale Divinity School, describes the importance of values and ethics in the environmental arena. She discusses the role that wonder and awe can play in bringing scientists and the religious community into dialogue.

ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on Fracking, BP, and the Drought Crisis

ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on Fracking, BP, and the Drought Crisis

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Abrahm Lustgarten, a senior investigative reporter at ProPublica, discusses his reporting on the drought crisis in the western United States, and on the safety risks of fracking for natural gas. He also talks about the corporate culture within BP that led up to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the subject of his 2012 book called ‘Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.’ He compares the culture within BP that led up to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy with the culture he sees across the drilling industry now.

Toward a New Pyschology of Climate Action: A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes

Toward a New Pyschology of Climate Action: A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes

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Dr. Per Espen Stoknes discusses the misunderstood science of climate psychology and overcoming psychological barriers so we can act meaningfully together to build bottom-up support for climate policy. His new book is What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action. Dr. Stoknes is a psychologist and economist who teaches at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo.

The Forest Unseen: Interview with writer and biologist David Haskell

The Forest Unseen: Interview with writer and biologist David Haskell

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Biologist and writer David Haskell discusses the stunning perceptual differences between moth tongues and fungal hyphae, why human productions like golf balls are “not stains imposed on nature,” and other thoughts from his 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist book, The Forest Unseen.

“Ascertainability” in Class Action Lawsuits

“Ascertainability” in Class Action Lawsuits

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Should a court be able to identify each individual member of a plaintiff class before allowing a class action lawsuit to go forward? In this episode, we interview Geoff Shaw (YLS 2016) about his forthcoming Note, “Class Ascertainability.”