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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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November 2009
Article
International Affairs
If the objective of climate change policies is to be achieved, within a generation the way in which
energy is produced and used will have to have changed totally, write Antony Froggatt and Michael Levi.
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November 24, 2009
Essential Documents
Fact Sheet
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November 23, 2009
Video
Watch Fatih Birol, chief economist and director of the office of the chief economist at the International Energy Agency, report on the world energy market and the ways to combat climate change.
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November 23, 2009
Audio
Listen to Fatih Birol, chief economist and director of the office of the chief economist at the International Energy Agency, report on the world energy market and the ways to combat climate change.
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October 27, 2009
Must Read
This Journal of Energy Security article reviews the changing energy security environment and the effect of energy infrastructure attacks on crude oil pricing.
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July 15, 2009
Must Read
An IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates special report on development of the Canadian oil sands.
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June 19, 2009
Article
Slate
Michael A. Levi argues that a price on carbon would provide the United States energy security and prod the Canadian oil sands industry to clean up its emissions act.
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May 22, 2009
Op-Ed
Sakal Times
Peter A. Garretson discusses the possibility that satellites in orbit can be a source of energy for the future.
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May 22, 2009
Op-Ed
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Peter A. Garretson discusses the launch of orbiting solar collectors into space as a solution for energy security and climate change.
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May 22, 2009
Essential Documents
Act (Proposed)
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U.S. energy dependence is undercutting U.S. national security, finds a new Council Task Force.
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This report explores how international legal rules regarding military force might evolve to better meet the challenges of mass atrocities.
The authors of this CSR explain why the United States needs to place greater emphasis on preventive action and how current organizational arrangements can be changed to meet that need.
This report addresses pan-Asian and trans-Pacific architectures and guidelines for how the United States can revise its approach in order to consolidate and improve the efficacy of these Asian institutions.
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Through compelling analysis and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, Charles A. Kupchan explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity, and exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace.
With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine Israel's adversity-driven culture to offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
Vali Nasr 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.
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Former Council Military Fellow, 2005-2006
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Senior Fellow for International Business
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Global Economy 