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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.

  Each project page contains the name of the project director, a description of the project, a list of meetings it has held, and any related publications, transcripts, or videos.

   

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  2000

  January 1, 2000—March 31, 2001

  Ad hoc meetings on Africa

   

  January 1, 2000—September 1, 2002

  AT Kearney Executive Roundtable Series

  Staff:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

  This roundtable covers major issues in international economics of direct concern to American business. Prominent speakers from industry, government and academia are featured.

   

  January 1, 2000—Present

  Embassy Luncheon Meeting Series

   

  August 1, 2000—January 1, 2004

  Independent Economic Task Force on Japan

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on Building Support for More Open Trade

  Directors:	Timothy F. Geithner Daniel R. Lucich
  Chairs:	Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on China, The United States and the WTO

  Chair:	Robert D. Hormats
  Staff:	Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
  Director:	Kevin G. Nealer

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on Southeast Asia

  Director:	Robert A. Manning, Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council
  Chair:	J. Robert Kerrey, Member,, U.S. Senate (D-Neb.)

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on State Department Reform

  Director:	Ian Joseph Brzezinski
  Chair:	Frank C. Carlucci

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on Strategic Energy Policy

  Director:	Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson fellow in Energy Studies, The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University
  Chair:	Edward L. Morse

   

  January 1, 2000—January 1, 2001

  Independent Task Force on Testing North Korea

  Director:	Robert A. Manning, Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council
  Chair:	James T. Laney
  Staff:	The Honorable Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation

   

  September 1, 2000—February 28, 2001

  Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward Cuba

   

  January 1, 2000—Present

  Jacob K. Javits Memorial Lecture Series

  The Jacob K. Javits Memorial Lecture Series was inaugurated in 1999 in honor of Senator Javits, who served as New York’s senator from 1957 to 1980 and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The series is supported by a gift from the Jacob K. Javits Foundation. This lecture invites leading congressional thinkers on U.S. foreign policy to the Council.

   

  July 1, 2000—November 1, 2002

  James J. Shinn U.S.-Asia Roundtable

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

   

  May 18, 2000—May 19, 2000

  Latin America Conference 2000

  Director:	Kenneth R. Maxwell, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
  Staff:	Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies

  Latin America Conference - May 18-19, 2000 http://www.cfr.org/public/latinamerica.html

   

  January 1, 2000—May 1, 2000

  Managing Global Security and Rogue States: Lessons from UNSCOM

  Director:	Richard Butler

  Eight years after the U.N. Security Council established a Special Commission to "destroy, remove, or render harmless" Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Saddam Hussein declared that UNSCOM will no longer be permitted to conduct its disarmament work. In the face of such overt defiance, the Security Council has been paralyzed by the conflicting national interests of its permanent members. Iraq’s continuing refusal to fulfill its disarmament obligations has thus not only undermined the Security Council’s capacity to enforce its resolutions as international law, but it may also jeopardize the international commitment to the WMD non-proliferation regime. Ambassador Butler will study the implications of these developments, while writing a book based on his recent position as UNSCOM’s executive chairman. The book will present an analysis of specific events from his two-year tenure as the organization’s chief disarmament expert and negotiator. He will specifically draw upon his experiences in guiding all UNSCOM operations, directing negotiations with the government of Iraq, leading discussions with heads of government, foreign and defense ministers, and intelligence chiefs, and advising the Security Council on relevant policy matters. The book will present the disarmament of Iraq as a major test case for the international arms control regime. It will examine the key events leading up to the current crisis with Iraq and detail how the international community sought, or failed, to deal with this particular recalcitrant state. In this context, the book will consider the role of the U.N. in the management of global security system in the century ahead.

   

  January 1, 2000—Present

  Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

  Staff:	Marc Levinson, Senior Fellow for International Business Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics Steven Dunaway, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change David Braunschvig, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy Matthew J. Slaughter, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization Caroline Atkinson, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics Roger M. Kubarych, Henry Kaufman Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics and Finance James P. Dougherty, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology Joan McGrath, Web Producer
  Chairs:	Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1979-87) Bernard L. Schwartz, Chairman and CEO, BLS Investments, LLC
  Advisory Board:	Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. Martin S. Feldstein, President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Roger C. Altman, Chairman, Evercore Partners, Inc. Richard H. Clarida, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University Daniel W. Drezner, Associate Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Joseph H. Flom, Senior Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Kristin J. Forbes, Associate Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeffrey A. Frankel, James Harpel Chair for Capital Formation & Growth, Harvard University Stephen C. Freidheim, CIO and Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners Aaron Louis Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University James D. Grant, Owner and Editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer David D. Hale, Chairman, Hale Advisors Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson fellow in Energy Studies, The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University Jim Kolbe, Senior Advisor, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Robert E. Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Michael Mandelbaum, Christian Herter Professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Donald B. Marron, Chairman, Lightyear Capital Kathleen R. McNamara, Associate Prof. of Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University E. Stanley O'Neal John G. Ruggie, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Faryar Shirzad, Managing Director, Office of Government Affairs, The Goldman Sachs Group Joan E. Spero, Visiting Fellow, Foundation Center Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International Steven Denning, Chairman, General Atlantic LLC Marc Lasry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Avenue Capital Group Daniel Zwirn, Chairman, Lightyear Capital Charles O. Prince III, Chairman, Sconset Group Jeffrey A. Rosen, Deputy Chairman, Lazard

  Founded in 2000, the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations works to promote a better understanding among policymakers, academic specialists, and the interested public of how economic and political forces interact to influence world affairs. Globalization is fast erasing the boundaries that have traditionally separated economics from foreign policy and national security issues. The growing integration of national economies is increasingly constraining the policy options that government leaders can consider, while government decisions are shaping the pace and course of global economic interactions. It is essential that policymakers and the public have access to rigorous analysis from an independent, nonpartisan source so that they can better comprehend our interconnected world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. The center pursues its aims through:

  • Research carried out by Council fellows and adjunct fellows of outstanding merit and expertise in economics and foreign policy, disseminated through books, articles, and other mass media;
  • Meetings in New York, Washington, DC, and other select American cities where the world's most important economic policymakers and scholars address critical issues in a discussion or debate format, all involving direct interaction with Council members;
  • Sponsorship of roundtables and independent task forces whose aims are to inform and help to set the public foreign-policy agenda in areas in which an economic component is integral;
  • Training of the next generation of policymakers, who will require fluency in the workings of markets as well as the mechanics of international relations.

  ADVISORY BOARD Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg, Chair Mr. Richard N. Haass, Ex- Officio Ms. Lisa Anderson The Rt. Hon. Lord Browne of Madingley The Honorable Martin S. Feldstein Dr. Stanley Fischer General John R. Galvin, USA (Ret.) The Honorable Carla A. Hills The Honorable Winston Lord Mr. Donald B. Marron Mr. William J. McDonough The Honorable Peter G. Peterson Mr. David Rockefeller The Honorable Robert E. Rubin Mr. Richard E. Salomon The Honorable Brent Scowcroft Dr. Laura D'Andrea Tyson The Honorable Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León

   

  January 1, 2000—Present

  Mock National Security Council Meeting Series

   

  January 1, 2000—February 28, 2000

  Muslim Politics Project

   

  September 1, 2000—October 1, 2000

  New Forms of Terrorism Study Group

  Director:	Jessica Stern, Former Adjunct Fellow, Superterrorism, Council on Foreign Relations

   

  March 31, 2000—April 30, 2000

  Roundtable on Advances in Science and Technology: How Will They Affect U.S. Foreign Policy

  Director:	Richard L. Garwin
  Staff:	David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology

  Advances in science and technology are transforming people's lives, but are they affecting U.S. foreign policy—how the United States established its interests and perceives dangers as well as opportunities? Experienced U.S. foreign policy leaders were brought together with leaders in science and technology to address this question during a one-day roundtable on March 31, 2000. The group explored three important fields of science and technology—information technology, molecular biology and its applications, and national security technology.

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