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October 2006
Task Force Report No. 58
Task Force Report
This report argues that the lack of sustained attention to energy issues is undercutting U.S. foreign policy and national security.
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May/June 2008
| Author: | Michael L. Ross |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The world has grown much more peaceful over the past 15 years -- except for oil-rich countries. Oil wealth often wreaks havoc on a country's economy and politics, helps fund insurgents, and aggravates ethnic grievances. And with oil ever more in demand, the problems it spawns are likely to spread further.
April 7, 2008
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell interviewed by Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor, CFR.org
Interview
Jeroen Van der Veer, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, on global oil demand, the end of “easy oil,” and nationalized oil companies.
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March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell PLC |
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| Presider: | Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers |
Audio
Listen to Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, discuss the various global factors influencing the energy market and implications for the next fifty years.
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March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell PLC |
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| Presider: | Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers |
Video
Watch Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, discuss the various global factors influencing the energy market and implications for the next fifty years.
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March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell Plc |
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| Presider: | Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers |
Transcript
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February 28, 2008
| Author: | David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology |
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Op-Ed
Newsweek
In this article for Newsweek, David Victor says that the deeper cause of China's recent power crisis lies in the fact that China's free-market policies—the same ones that led to China's extraordinary growth in the past decade—have eroded the government's ability to control its economy. In fact, the big challenge in the coming Asian century may not be China and India's burgeoning strength but their weakness.
See more in China, India, Energy, Environmental Pollution
February 13, 2008
| Speakers: | Robert D. Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers Philip D. Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University Of Virginia |
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| Presider: | Paula Stern, Chairwoman, The Stern Group, Inc. |
Transcript
See more in United States, National Security and Defense, Energy
January 2008
| Author: | Carlos Pascual |
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Must Read
Carlos Pascual examines the impact of energy dependency and what efforts ensuring future sustainability, prosperity, and security will involve.
See more in Energy, Natural Resources Management
January 10, 2008
| Author: | Pierre Noël |
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Must Read
Pierre Noël argues that U.S. dreams about energy independence lead to expensive policies with no real energy security benefits.
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U.S. energy dependence is undercutting U.S. national security, finds a new Council Task Force.
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Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
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.
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 Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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.
Complete list of CFR Books.
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C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Deputy Director of Studies
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
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