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August 27, 2008
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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.
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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.
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August 27, 2008
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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.
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July 3, 2008
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A CFR confrence call on climate change and the upcoming G-8 Summit.
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July 3, 2008
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Listen to CFR senior fellows Michael A. Levi and Sebastian Mallaby discuss prospects for progress on climate change at the G8 summit.
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June 24, 2008
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Watch experts discuss U.S. policy options with regard to China's environmental strategy.
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June 24, 2008
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Listen to experts discuss U.S. policy options with regard to China's environmental strategy.
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June 24, 2008
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Experts discuss climate change, China, and energy policy options for the United States.
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June 13, 2008
Interview
Michael A. Levi, who directed CFR's Independent Task Force on global climate change, says the United States needs to demonstrate how reducing carbon emissions can be balanced with economic growth.
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June 13, 2008
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June 13, 2008
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June 2008
Task Force Report No. 61
Task Force Report
Against the backdrop of increasing attention to climate change in the presidential campaigns, debate of the Lieberman-Warner climate bill in the Senate, and preparations for this summer’s G8 summit, this report recommends an overhaul of U.S. domestic and foreign policy to confront the challenges of climate change.
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January 25, 2008
Podcast
Michael Levi, CFR fellow for science and technology, says the next president needs a strong domestic approach to climate change to be credible internationally.
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February 18, 2008
Op-Ed
SEED Magazine
Michael A. Levi argues that “too many scientists today wrongly assume that a lack of information is the biggest barrier facing terrorists or countries that might build nuclear bombs, and they overstate the risks involved in sharing information as a result.”
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January 31, 2008
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Listen to CFR fellow Michael A. Levi discuss mechanisms for preventing nuclear terrorism with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series. This call was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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January 9, 2008
Op-Ed
USA Today
Michael Levi writes that “the mushroom cloud scenario has become a political fixture, as myths seem to be driving the debate.”
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December 13, 2007
Interview
CFR Fellow Michael A. Levi says the Bali climate conference made some headway on deforestation but questions the rush to a deal on setting binding emissions targets.
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December 10, 2007
Op-Ed
The New Republic
Michael Levi writes that the “the NIE won't actually alter the debate about Iran.”
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December 7, 2007
Transcript
The transcript of a meeting on protecting U.S. security interests from climate change.
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December 5, 2007
Podcast
CFR Fellow for Science and Technology Michael A. Levi discusses his new book, On Nuclear Terrorism, which highlights many of the obstacles potential nuclear terrorists face.
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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