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October 16, 2009
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Watch experts detail how pandemic influenza viruses are created, why populations are affected differently, and how vaccinations affect the spread of the virus.
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy, which was cosponsored with Science Magazine.
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October 16, 2009
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Watch experts analyze the economic effects of pandemic influenza including on the labor force and trade.
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy, which was cosponsored with Science Magazine.
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October 16, 2009
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Watch experts discuss the U.S. foreign policy implications of a global pandemic including access to vaccinations and effects on trade.
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy, which was cosponsored with Science Magazine.
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October 16, 2009
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On Friday, October 16, 2009, watch experts discuss the science behind pandemic influenza as well as its economic and political implications.
This symposium is cosponsored with Science Magazine.
The live webcast has ended. Please return to this page for an archived video of the event. Recordings are usually posted two to three days after the conclusion of the meeting.
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October 16, 2009
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Session I of the Council On Foreign Relations Symposium Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy. Subject: The Science
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For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He 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.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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