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December 10, 2007
| Author: | Toni Johnson, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Though increasing demand and reduced production by some major producers helped oil prices skyrocket, investor behavior is also increasing market volatility.
See more in Energy, Natural Resources Management
December 10, 2007
| Authors: | Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Lee S. Wolosky |
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Article
Weekly Standard
Max Boot and Lee Wolosky write that “traveling to the Middle East can be a disconcerting experience. One day you feel as if you're journeying into the future, the next day into the past.”
See more in Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Business & Foreign Policy
November 28, 2007
Yang Guang, Director of the Institute for West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences interviewed by Stephanie Hanson, News Editor
Interview
Yang Guang, director of the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, says that China and the United States “do not have strategic conflicts” in Africa.
November 28, 2007
| Speaker: | Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve System Board of Governors |
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| Presider: | Lawrence Meyer, Senior Advisor, Macroeconomic Advisors, Dinstinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
Transcript
Speaker Donald Kohn discusses the role central banks should have in international financial markets.
See more in Economics, Business & Foreign Policy
October 14, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in China, Japan, India, Geoeconomics
October 8, 2007
John W. Bruns, Vice President, China Operations, Boeing Commercial Airplanes interviewed by Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor
Interview
John W. Bruns, the senior executive based in China for Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, says Chinese ventures to build large commercial aircraft present both opportunities and challenges for established aerospace firms.
October 8, 2007
| Author: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor |
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Backgrounder
Chinese entry into the manufacturing of commercial vehicles and aircraft has the potential to reshape the competitive landscape in two industries still dominated by G8 nations.
August 15, 2007
Daily Analysis
The longstanding rivalry between once-conjoined India and Pakistan takes an economic twist as the countries turn 60.
July 5, 2007
Daily Analysis
Oft overlooked beside Chinese mega-investments in Africa, India too is pouring money into the continent. The relationship holds economic and political ramifications.
See more in Africa, India, Trade
May 17, 2007
| Author: | Wu Yi |
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Must Read
Wu Yi, vice premier of China, argues for the importance U.S.-China economic links and says that both countries must rise to the challenges associated with globalization.
See more in China, Grand Strategy
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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.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Three-Front War (4/30): Michael Gerson argues that a decent outcome in Iraq would be considerably devalued if counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan stall, 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 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.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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