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Troy Stangarone

Economic security and resiliency

Earlier this month, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the electricity for most of the state of Texas, requested customers voluntarily reduce power consumption to avoid rolling blackouts due to an extreme heat wave.

2022-07-21 16:31

What to do about Russian fossil fuel imports?

In recent weeks, Gazprom has cut the flow of gas into Europe along the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by 60 percent, while also cutting off some of the countries that refused Russia's demand to pay in rubles.

2022-06-21 16:24

Economic security needs to work both ways

In the lead up to Joe Biden's recent trip to South Korea, Washington and Seoul agreed to establish a dialogue channel on economic security. For much of the last few years, the United States has largely focused on how to improve its own economic security. But for the new initiative to succeed it will need to work both ways.

2022-05-26 16:30

What Yoon Suk-yeol can learn from Trump's presidency

When Yoon Suk-yeol is sworn in on May 10, he will assume the presidency with little political experience. In many cases, his advisers will certainly give him good advice, but as he prepares to take office, President-elect Yoon should take a moment to consider what he can learn from Donald Trump's presidency in the United States.

2022-05-02 16:24

Economic issues play larger role in Korea-U.S. relations

As with any incoming president, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's economic policies are still taking shape, but will likely be more market-oriented than the outgoing Moon Jae-in administration. How Yoon approaches economic issues, however, could have a more significant impact on the future of U.S.-Korea relations than under prior administrations.

2022-03-31 16:20

Case for South Korean sanctions on Russia

If there was ever any illusion that Russia didn't intend to invade Ukraine, that is gone now. Russian troops have entered into Ukraine with the clear intent to remove its democratically elected government. While Ukraine may seem a world away from the Korean Peninsula, what happens on the plains of Eastern Europe will reverberate all of the way to Korea.

2022-03-01 16:54

Political polarization hinders talks with North Korea

In advance of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Joe Biden lamented the challenges of political polarization for advancing his agenda. In noting the near universal Republican opposition to the majority of his agenda and the lack of a Republican platform for governing that might allow room for compromise, Biden asked rhetorically, “I wonder what would be the Republican platform right now. What do you think?”

2022-02-03 16:48

Three issues for US-Korea relations in 2022

After four years of tensions over national security and trade, the United States and South Korea sought to reset relations in 2021. The election of Joe Biden as president of the United States allowed Washington and Seoul to reach a new agreement quickly on defense cost sharing and then agree to increase cooperation on issues ranging from supply chains to vaccine cooperation to climate change at the U.S.-Korea summit in May.

2022-01-03 15:59

South Korea should play larger role in ending pandemic

As we approach the end of the second year of the pandemic, the world faces renewed uncertainty from the Omicron variant of COVID-19. However, now that South Korea has fully vaccinated 80 percent of its population against the coronavirus there is an opportunity for it to play a larger role in ending the pandemic.

2021-12-07 17:02

Will Korea meet its COP26 pledges?

For the last two weeks, much of the world's attention has been focused on Glasgow and COP26, the U.N. summit to address climate change. World leaders and government officials have been working to bridge the divide between the short-term need for economic growth and the steps required to deal with the long-term challenges our planet faces from rising temperatures.

2021-11-11 17:00

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