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David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
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Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Expertise:Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Experience:Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations (2006-2008); Nonresident Science Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution (2003-2004); Director, Strategic Security Project, Federation of American Scientists (2001-2003); Deputy Director, Strategic Security Project, Federation of American Scientists (2001).
Selected Publications:Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy (director, Independent Task Force report, Council on Foreign Relations Press, June 2008); On Nuclear Terrorism (Harvard University Press, 2007); Untapped Potential: U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2005); The Future of Arms Control (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2005).
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
December 12, 2008
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
The sooner the new administration lays out the contours of the agreement it wants on climate change, the better the odds that it will be able to deliver. In this Huffington Post article, Michael Levi suggests a 5 point strategy for UN climate negotiations.
See more in Energy/Environment, International Organizations
December 11, 2008
Op-Ed
Slate
The annual U.N. climate negotiations, currently under way in Poznan, Poland, have stalled. In this Slate article, Michael Levi argues that one major obstacle is that the list of who's rich and who's poor is hopelessly out of date.
See more in Poland, Energy/Environment, International Organizations
December 3, 2008
Audio
Listen to Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals, and Michael Levi, director of the program on energy security and climate change at CFR, discuss climate change and religious environmental activism as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
See more in Climate Change, Environmental Pollution, Natural Resources Management
December 1, 2008
Transcript
Session I of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
December 1, 2008
Video
Watch experts reflect on global challenges such as the rise of China, climate change, and energy security and how these affect the U.S.-Japan partnership.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
See more in Japan, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 1, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts reflect on global challenges such as the rise of China, climate change, and energy security and how these affect the U.S.-Japan partnership.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
See more in Japan, U.S. Strategy and Politics
November 20, 2008
Expert Brief
CFR Senior Fellow Michael Levi writes that the financial crisis will affect U.S. near-term efforts to deal with energy security and climate change.
See more in Climate Change
October 2008
Article
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Daniel S. Hall, Michael A. Levi, William A. Pizer, and Takahiro Ueno look at policy options for encouraging cooperation between the developed and developing world on combating climate change.
See more in Climate Change, Treaties
September 24, 2008
Op-Ed
USA Today
Michael A. Levi and Scott G. Borgerson discuss the views of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin on climate change.
September 22, 2008
Audio
Listen to CFR fellows discuss topics such as U.S. relations with Asia, Russia, and Europe, as well as the financial crisis, nuclear terrorism, and climate change, as they relate to the presidential foreign policy debate.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
September 2008
Council Special Report No. 39
Council Special Report
This new Council Special Report says North Korea merits Cold War-style methods of deterrence as its leaders might deliberately transfer nuclear materials to a terrorist group.
See more in United States, Proliferation
September 22, 2008
News Release
See more in United States, State Sponsors of Terrorism
September 22, 2008
Transcript
Perspective on the Presidential Foreign Policy Debate.
See more in United States, Congress, Foreign Policy History, Public Diplomacy
September 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the influence of Brazil and Venezuela on U.S. energy policy, as well as the effects of climate change on U.S.-Latin America relations.
This symposium was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
See more in Americas, Climate Change, Energy
September 12, 2008
Transcript
Third session of a forum on Latin American influence on U.S. policies and politics with an emphasis on energy.
See more in Central America, United States, South America, Energy/Environment, Energy
September 2, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the various foreign policy challenges the next U.S. administration will face as part of a three-day symposium during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, cosponsored with the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
This symposium was underwritten by Chevron Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, the Stanford Financial Group, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency, U.S. Election 2008
September 2, 2008
Video
Watch experts discuss the various foreign policy challenges the next U.S. administration will face as part of a three-day symposium during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, cosponsored with the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
This symposium was underwritten by Chevron Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, the Stanford Financial Group, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency, U.S. Election 2008
August 27, 2008
Video
Watch experts discuss foreign policy challenges for the next administration at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, featuring a special address by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, cosponsored with the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and the City and County of Denver's 2008 Rocky Mountain Roundtable.
This roundtable was underwritten, in part, by Chevron Corporation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
August 27, 2008
Audio
Watch experts discuss foreign policy challenges for the next administration at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, featuring a special address by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, cosponsored with the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and the City and County of Denver's 2008 Rocky Mountain Roundtable.
This roundtable was underwritten, in part, by Chevron Corporation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
August 27, 2008
Transcript
A Roundtable discussion on the foreign policy challenged that the next presidential administration will face.
See more in United States, Congress, Foreign Policy History, U.S. Election 2008
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
Complete list of CFR Books.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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