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Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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September 23, 2007
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Washington Post
Politicians are supposed to be the masters of persuasion, flattery and spin; technocrats just the opposite. In a review of The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan’s new book, Sebastian Mallaby claims that Greenspan succeeded as much through charm as through his skills as an economist.
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May 18, 2007
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Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby explains why the next World Bank president should continue the campaign against corruption in developing countries established by Paul Wolfowitz.
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May 14, 2007
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Washington Post
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May/June 2007
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Council on Foreign Relations
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March 5, 2007
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The Washington Post
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February 26, 2007
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Newsweek International
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May 26, 2009
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Listen to members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
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May 14, 2009
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Listen to CFR experts Benn Steil and Sebastian Mallaby discuss the lessons learned from the current financial crisis.
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May 12, 2009
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Listen to experts discuss past global financial and monetary policies during financial crises and actions that governments today might take to respond to current crisis.
This session was part of the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power, which was made possible through the generous support of Stephen C. Freidheim.
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May 8, 2009
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Listen to experts discuss how international financial institutions can work together to mitigate the financial crisis, as well as reforms that could make these organizations more effective.
This session was part of the CFR conference: The United States and the Future of Global Governance, which was made possible through the generous support of the Robina Foundation.
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March 19, 2009
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Listen to Steven Dunaway, CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics, lay out the argument of his recent Council Special Report and explain why in order for policymakers to tackle today's global economic crisis, they must go beyond bailouts and stimulus packages and focus on one of the crisis's root causes: imbalances between savings and investment in major countries.
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February 19, 2009
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Listen to CFR experts examine U.S. foreign policy toward Asia, the global economy, and the challenges and opportunities that fill the new administration's inbox.
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November 12, 2008
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Listen to CFR experts Sebastian Mallaby, Benn Steil, and Brad Setser discuss the G20 international financial summit-dubbed Bretton Woods II-taking place in Washington, DC on November 15.
November 3, 2008
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Listen to experts explain the origins of the recent financial crisis and offer possible solutions for the current and next administrations.
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September 22, 2008
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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.
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September 18, 2008
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Listen to CFR experts discuss the financial crisis and its global implications.
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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 19, 2008
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Listen to C. Fred Bersten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discuss the latest round of U.S.-China economic talks and his upcoming Foreign Affairs article.
May 7, 2008
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Listen to George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
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May 7, 2008
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Listen to Sebastian Mallaby, CFR's director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, and deputy director of studies, discuss current trends surrounding the economics and politics of globalization, and the causes and consequences of the globalization backlash.
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.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
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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