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May 14, 2008
| Speaker: | Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State |
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| Presider: | Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company |
Transcript
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May 14, 2008
| Speaker: | Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State |
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| Presider: | Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company |
Audio
Listen to Ambassador Mark Lagon discuss ways the U.S. government and the private sector can work together to combat human trafficking.
See more in Human Rights, Business & Foreign Policy
April 2008
| Author: | T.A. Frank |
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Must Read
T.A. Frank looks back on his experience as a factory inspector for a "corporate social responsibility monitoring" firm. He wonders if the Democratic candidates' proposals for tougher labor standards in free trade agreements are enforceable.
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May 14, 2008
| Speaker: | Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State |
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| Presider: | Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company |
Video
Watch Ambassador Mark Lagon discuss ways the U.S. government and the private sector can work together to combat human trafficking.
See more in Human Rights, Business & Foreign Policy
Updated: May 12, 2008
| Author: | Toni Johnson, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Through the U.S. presidential nominating process, voters have offered a muddled view on foreign policy issues but they continue to generate heat on the campaign trail.
See more in United States, Defense/Homeland Security, Business & Foreign Policy, Society and Culture, Immigration, U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
May 8, 2008
| Speaker: | John P. Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund |
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| Presider: | Thomas R. Keene, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News |
Video
Watch John P. Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the IMF, discuss the relationship between rising energy and commodity prices and global inflation.
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May 8, 2008
| Speaker: | John P. Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund |
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| Presider: | Thomas R. Keene, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News |
Audio
Listen to John P. Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the IMF, discuss the relationship between rising energy and commodity prices and global inflation.
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May 7, 2008
| Speaker: | George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC; Author, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means |
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| Presider: | Sebastian Mallaby, Deputy Director of Studies, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
May 7, 2008
| Speaker: | George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC; Author, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means |
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| Presider: | Sebastian Mallaby, Deputy Director of Studies, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
May 2, 2008
| Authors: | Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics Ellen E. Meade, Associate Professor of Economics, American University |
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Academic Module
This module features teaching notes by Peter B. Kenen and Ellen E. Meade, coauthors of Regional Monetary Integration, along with other resources to supplement the text. In the book, the authors seek to explain why governments contemplate regional monetary integration and why some country groups are more likely than others to exercise that option, and to be successful at doing so.
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
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.
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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