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  Below you will find a chronological list of current Council projects. You can search by issue or region by selecting the appropriate category. In addition to this sorting control, you can search for specific subjects within the alphabetical, regional, and issue categories by choosing from the selections in the drop-down menu below.

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  1995

  March 1, 1995—November 30, 1997

  Middle East Economic Strategy Group (MEESG)

  Staff:	Henry Siegman, Former Senior Fellow and Director for the U.S./Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations

  Chaired by Paul Volcker, the Middle East Economic Strategy Group is comprised of experts in international finance, trade, and development. The group examines the efficacy and viability of new regional cooperative arrangements and institutions and develops policy recommendations for regional economic development. MEESG is not a typical Study Group, but rather has commissioned a set of papers from Gulf experts who are convening to determine what, if any, policy recommendations might be made by the MEESG on development strategies for the Gulf.

   

  November 1, 1995—October 1, 1996

  Study Group on Constructive Engagement with China

  Chair:	Michel Oksenberg
  Staff:	Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies

  This study group evaluated Chinese participation in a range of international regimes and assessed the implications of its behavior for U.S. policy interests, focusing on ten issue areas of critical importance to the United States: human rights, telecommunications, environment, energy, security, the United Nations, civil aviation, legal reform, trade and investment, and banking and finance. The study group report, Shaping U.S.-China Relations: A Long-Term Strategy, sheds light both on the continuity in Chinese leaders' overarching foreign policy goals, strategies, and tactics and on the changes China has made in adapting its domestic institutions and policies to the demands of the international community. It articulates the ways in which the U.S. administration's policy of constructive engagement has influenced Chinese behavior at the domestic and international levels, and provides a set of recommendations as to whether the United States and its allies should continue to pursue this policy, how it might be modified to better serve U.S. interests, and whether an alternative policy altogether would be more effective. An edited volume with all ten case studies will be published in fall 1997.

   

  September 1, 1995—October 1, 2003

  United Nations Roundtable

  Director:	Ruth Wedgwood

  The U.N. roundtable discusses the international security crises and political problems that can be addressed by U.S. foreign policy through the United Nations. The roundtable has looked at East Timor, Kosovo, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and nuclear nonproliferation, as well as U.N. reform. Roundtable discussants are drawn from the senior ranks of U.N. diplomatic missions, nongovernmental organizations, the U.N. Secretariat, academia, business, and journalism, as well as the U.S. government.

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