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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 |
Video
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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, Society and Culture, Immigration, U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
April 9, 2008
| Author: | Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Sebastian Mallaby's update to his January/February 2007 essay "Hands Off Hedge Funds."
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Updated: April 8, 2008
| Authors: | Lionel Beehner Preeti Bhattacharji |
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Backgrounder
Since its creation in 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has risen in regional prominence and prompted Iran to submit a controversial bid to join the group.
See more in Central Asia, China, Russian Fed., Iran, Trade, Counterterrorism
March 26, 2008
| Authors: | Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History Gaurav Tiwari, Research Associate |
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Article
YaleGlobal
In this YaleGlobal piece, Amity Shlaes and Gaurav Tiwari examine entrepreneurship and oil wealth in various countries and how these factors relate to a country’s policy towards the U.S. They find that there is indeed a significant positive relationship between the pro-US votes and the level of enterprise in a country, and that countries with oil tend to be less entrepreneurial as well as less friendly to the US. It seems clear that the US would benefit not only from helping countries strengthen education, the rule of law and free trade, but also from supporting the entrepreneurial culture of any country where the US has an interest.
See more in Energy, U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 17, 2008
Podcast
The director of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group, discusses the firm’s businesses and the Indian economy.
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March 6, 2008
| Speaker: | Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
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| Welcoming Remarks: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Presider: | Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr, LLP |
Transcript
Panels discuss the current financial challenges.
See more in Economics, International Finance
February 2008
Article
McKinsey Quarterly
Richard Haass says that businesses have much to learn from government as they compete in an increasingly complex global landscape.
See more in Geoeconomics, International Finance
January 28, 2008
| Speaker: | Robert M. Kimmitt, Deputy Treasury Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
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| Presider: | Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs |
Transcript
Robert M. Kimmitt discusses sovereign wealth funds and the world economy.
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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.
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