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March 2018

Libya: Sanctions Removal Done Right? A Review of the Libyan Sanctions Experience, 1980–2006

By
Richard Nephew

Senior Research Scholar Richard Nephew explores the process and impact of terminating economic santions, using Libya as a recent example. 

February 2018

Trump and the End of the Iran Deal: Oil Market Implications

By
Richard Nephew

Senior Research Scholar Richard Nephew writes on the consequences of a possible decision by President Trump to de-authorize the extension of sanctions waivers that permit the JCPOA to function.

February 2018

The Impact of Solar Tariffs on US Manufacturing

By
Shayle Kann and MJ Shiao

In this new commenary, CGEP Nonresident Fellow Shayle Kann and his co-author MJ Shiao argue that there are two main reasons solar companies will think twice before investing into new US solar panel manufacturing industry -- the economic benefits from new tariffs may never materilaize and if they do they will be short lived. 

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March 12, 2018

U.S. Climate Policy Under the Trump Administration

George David Banks
Former Special Assistant to the President for international energy and environment

U.S. climate and energy policy has shifted course under the Trump Administration. From the decision to leave the Paris Agreement, to promises to prop up the coal industry, to a push for "energy dominance" and now a new "energy realism," much has...

February 26, 2018

Oil & Gas: Adapting to a New Energy Landscape

Patrick Pouyanné
Chairman and CEO of Total

New developments in the global energy landscape--from the rise of clean energy technologies and predictions of peak oil demand, to the shale revolution and depressed oil prices, to the ebb and flow of geopolitical tensions and policy efforts to...

January 15, 2018

Trump's Ultimatum & the Future of the Iran Deal

Richard Nephew & Gary Sick
SIPA faculty

President Trump has taken new steps to fulfill his campaign promise to either end the Iran nuclear agreement or get a better deal. After much speculation over whether he would extend the deal at all, the President issued an ultimatum to Congress...