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Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
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E-mail: icoleman@cfr.org
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Winter 2005
Article
Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
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Summer/Fall 2004
Article
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
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July 2004
Article
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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March 12, 2009
Audio
Listen to Isobel Coleman, senior fellow at CFR, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss economic and political development in the Middle East as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.
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June 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to a discussion of maternal health issues and how central they should be to the global health agenda.
This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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June 9, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the development and impact of microfinance in as a tool for reducing poverty.
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March 11, 2008
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Listen to UN deputy secretary-general Asha-Rose Migiro discuss priorities for the United Nations, with particular regard to international development. This event was made possible by the generosity of ExxonMobil.
See more in Human Rights, International Organizations, Poverty
November 16, 2006
Audio
Listen to Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, discuss the role of microcredit in fighting poverty.
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June 27, 2006
Audio
Listen to panelists present the issues surrounding maternal health as a foreign policy objective
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May 10, 2006
Audio
Listen to U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes discuss the challenges for U.S. diplomacy and the Bush administration’s strategies.
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May 3, 2006
Audio
Listen to experts analyze human trafficking in relation to human rights, immigration, and labor rights.
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January/February 2006
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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May/June 2004
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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June 24, 2009
Interview
Following the 2009 disputed Iran presidential election, CFR's Isobel Coleman, a leading expert on women's issues, says that if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory stands, "you'll see a much more restricted Iran." This will "fall heavily on women, but it won't stop them," she says.
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November 8, 2005
Interview
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March 8, 2005
Interview
July 13, 2009
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Isobel Coleman and Congressman Steve Israel discuss solar villages.
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May 21, 2008
Op-Ed
The Hill
Every year, 536,000 women die during childbirth, and an additional 8 million become severely disabled. The death toll doesn’t end with the mothers: 5 percent of all newborns die after their mother’s death, and millions of other children are left orphaned. Isobel Coleman and Laurie Garrett argue that the way to reduce this staggering level of maternal mortality is to “pass legislation that shows real resolve, with money and legislated programs behind it.”
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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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