Academic Conference Calls
CFR's Academic Conference Call series provides students the opportunity to interact with a CFR fellow, Foreign Affairs author, or another expert in an hour long teleconferenced discussion. Calls take place every other week during each semester and are dedicated to different topics related to international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Background readings are distributed prior to each call, and the audio recording is posted afterward below. This series is made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
For questions about conference calls or to sign up to receive invitations, email educators@cfr.org.
Listen to Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discuss his recent Foreign Affairs article, "The September 12 Paradigm," with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
Listen to authors Derek H. Chollet and James M. Goldgeier discuss their new book and events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 with students, as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Foreign Policy History
Listen to Stephen Biddle, senior fellow for defense policy at CFR, discuss his recent Foreign Affairs article, "How to Leave a Stable Iraq," with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Democracy Promotion
Listen to Wesleyan professor Francisco R. Rodriguez discuss the economic policies of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Venezuela, Economics, Poverty
Listen to Sebastian Mallaby, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, discuss the state of the U.S. economy and its implications for the rest of the world with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Geoeconomics, International Finance, Trade
Listen to CFR International Affairs Fellow Amy B. Frumin discuss issues surrounding post-conflict reconstruction with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
This call is made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See more in Civil Reconstruction, Foreign Aid
Listen to Stanford University's Michael A. McFaul discuss his recently coauthored Foreign Affairs article, "The Myth of the Authoritarian Model," with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Russian Fed.
Listen to Joshua Busby, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, discuss the relationship between climate change and U.S. national security interests with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in National Security and Defense, Climate Change
Listen to CFR fellow Michael A. Levi discuss mechanisms for preventing nuclear terrorism with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
This call was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Listen to Ray Takeyh, CFR's senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, discuss U.S. policy toward Iran with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
This call was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See more in Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Listen to Jagdish N. Bhagwati, CFR's senior fellow for international economics, discuss his book In Defense of Globalization with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Labor, Trade
Listen to Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone professor of international relations at Lehigh University, discuss the recent turmoil in Pakistan with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
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Listen to Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, discuss the role of American values in formulating U.S. foreign policy with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Public Diplomacy