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Records of CFR member meetings are available in four formats: transcripts, webcasts and videos, and audio streams. Transcripts are verbatim written accounts of on-the-record sessions and are usually posted on www.cfr.org within 24-48 hours after the meeting has taken place. The list below shows the most recent transcripts. Click on “See all” for a list of all the transcripts in the website database; that list can be sorted by region, issue, or date.
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 |
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Global Governance
May 14, 2008
| Speakers: | Charlene Barshefsky, Task Force Co-Chair and Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Llp, Former U.S. Trade Representative General James T. Hill (Ret.), Task Force Co-Chair, Former Commander, U.S. Southern Command, and President, The Jt Hill Group, Inc. Shannon O'Neil, Task Force Director and Fellow for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Karen J. DeYoung, Associate Editor and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, The Washington Post |
See more in Central America, United States, South America
April 29, 2008
| Speaker: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Lisa Shields, Vice President of Communications and Marketing, Council On Foreign Relations |
See more in Global Governance, Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
April 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Joyce Chang, Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and America's Emerging Markets Client Business, JPMorgan Chase & Company Ethan Harris, U.S. Economist and Managing Director, Lehman Brothers Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School Of Business, New York University; Chairman, Rge Monitor |
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| Presider: | Daniel K. Tarullo, Professor Of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
A panel presided by Daniel Tarullo address the current state of the world economy and discuss the possibilities for the future.
See more in Economics
April 23, 2008
| Speaker: | Pierre Hassner, Emeritus Research Director, Centre D'etudes et de Recherches Internationales |
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| Presider: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, Global Governance
April 23, 2008
| Speakers: | Eberhard Sandschneider, Otto Wolff Director of the Research Institute, German Council on Foreign Relations Harry Harding, University Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University Thomas Gomart, Director, Russia/Newly Independent States Center, French Institute of International Relations Angela E. Stent, Professor and Director, Center For Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University |
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See more in China, Russian Fed.
April 18, 2008
| Speaker: | Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt |
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| Presider: | Thomas R. Pickering, Vice Chairman, Hills & Company |
See more in Egypt, Israel, Palestinian Authority
April 15, 2008
| Speakers: | Ian W.H. Parry, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange Robert H. Socolow, Professor, Princeton University |
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| Presider: | Christine Todd Whitman, Former EPA Administrator and President, the Whitman Strategy Group LLC |
See more in Energy/Environment, Climate Change
April 8, 2008
| Speakers: | Angelina Jolie, Co-Chair, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Co-Chair, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict Safaa El-Kogali, Senior Economist, Human Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank George E. Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee |
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| Presider: | Gene B. Sperling, Director, Center for Universal Education, Council on Foreign Relations |
Speakers discuss the plight of refugee children.
See more in Iraq, Refugees and the Displaced, Society and Culture
April 2, 2008
| Speakers: | Aaron D. Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, Former U.S. Middle East Peace Negotiator Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland Robin Wright, Diplomatic Correspondent, Washington Post, Author, "Dreams And Shadows: The Future of the Middle East |
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| Presider: | Christopher Isham, Vice President and Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief, CBS News |
See more in United States, Middle East, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Peacemaking
March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell Plc |
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| Presider: | Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers |
See more in Energy/Environment, Energy Security
March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | General William Lord, Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command |
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| Presider: | Colonel Jeffrey B. Kendall, USAF, Military Fellow, U.S. Air Force, Council on Foreign Relations |
This roundtable dicussion is joined by Major General Bill Lord, who is the commander of the Air Force Cyberspace Command.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Technology and Foreign Policy
March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | J. Anthony Holmes, Fellow in Diplomatic Studies on Africa, Council on Foreign Relations |
Michelle Gavin explains the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and the tallying process.
See more in Zimbabwe, Elections
March 28, 2008
| Speakers: | Leon S. Fuerth, Shapiro Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs Paul J. Kern, Senior Counselor, the Cohen Group David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University; Professor of Law, Stanford Law School |
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| Presider: | Paul Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director, Center for Preventive Action |
Concerns are increasing about the consequences of global climate change, rising consumption rates, and population growth on the availability of natural resources, including water, land, forests, oil, gas, and a variety of minerals. In the face of scarcity, are we likely to see a rise in violent conflict over valuable resources? Or is the probability of 'resource wars' much less than feared? Speakers discuss these issues at a meeting cosponsored with the Council’s Center for Preventive Action.
See more in Energy/Environment, Natural Resources Management
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March 27, 2008
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Senior Fellow for Translatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director of Communications, Council on Foreign Relations |
See more in NATO
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Lawrence Harrison, Director, Cultural Change Institute and Lecturer, the Fletcher School, Tufts University Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islam, Duke University Robert Woodberry, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin |
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| Presider: | Peter Steinfels, Co-Director, Fordham Center on Religion and Culture |
See more in Religion
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Hamburger, Columbia University Law School |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow For U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Experts discuss trends in religion and foreign policy.
See more in Religion
March 25, 2008
| Speakers: | Peter L. Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology, and Director, the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University Mustafa Akyol, Deputy Editor, Turkish Daily News Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director, the Center for Muslim Studies, the Gallup Organization |
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| Presider: | George E. Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee |
Speakers discuss how the different forms of Christianity and Islam may have helped, and sometimes hindered, the development of free and open societies.
See more in Religion
March 20, 2008
| Speakers: | John Norton Moore, Director, School Of Law, Center for National Security Law, University Of Virginia James Watkins, Co-Chair, Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, Former Chief of Naval Operations, 1982-1986, Former U.S. Secretary Of Energy, 1989-1993 |
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| Presider: | Scott G. Borgerson, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
With the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea awaiting consideration by the full Senate, speakers address the issues surrounding the treaty and examine the coalitions that have moved it forward after more than 25 years.
See more in International Law, U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 19, 2008
| Speaker: | Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001) |
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| Presider: | Paul E. Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica |
See more in Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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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.
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