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Updated: December 19, 2007
| Author: | Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor |
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Backgrounder
Congress has approved the first increase in corporate average fuel economy in thirty years, propelled by worries over rising oil prices.
See more in United States, Energy/Environment
October 22, 2007
| Speaker: | Christine Lagarde, Minister for Economy, Finance and Employment, France |
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| Presider: | Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co |
Transcript
Christine Lagarde discusses French economic policy and its implications.
See more in France, Economics, Business & Foreign Policy
March 2, 2007
Daily Analysis
Daimler is trying to dump Chrysler and its flagging profits, but the bigger concern for U.S. and European automakers is looming competition from Asia.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy
March 2, 2007
| Author: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor |
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Backgrounder
Backgrounder: Detroit’s woes coincide with a blossoming of Asian automakers.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy
February 12, 2007
| Author: | Edmund S. Phelps |
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Must Read
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps writes in the Wall Street Journal about why Europe's economies will continue to lag behind the U.S.
See more in Europe/Russia
January 18, 2007
Daily Analysis
Since winning reelection in December, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has moved swiftly to advance his “21st Century Socialism.” As Chavez-friendly leaders take office in Ecuador and Nicaragua, will they do the same?
See more in Bolivia, South America, Venezuela, International Finance, Immigration
Updated May 15, 2006
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Daily Analysis
Evo Morales, Bolivia's populist president, has nationalized his country's energy industry. The decision will have specific economic ramifications, and possibly broader political ones in a region that lacks a coherent identity.
See more in Bolivia, Andean Region, Energy
July/August 2005
| Authors: | N. Mankiw Phillip Swagel |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
See more in Trade
February 16, 2005
| Author: | Edward J. Lincoln, Director, Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies, New York University |
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Article
Newsweek Japan
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July 6, 2002
| Author: | Bruce Stokes |
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Op-Ed
National Journal
See more in Trade, International Organizations
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U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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