• A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas

  Director:	Shannon K. O'Neil, Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies

  December 2008 - Present

  This project will develop a framework for a Sustainable Energy Partnership for the Americas that goes beyond bilateral agreements and adopts a regional approach towards sustainable growth and clean energy. The objective of this project is to draft a blueprint that will explore, and ultimately define, pathways for collaboration among American states in order to deliver solutions to the region's energy challenges. The blueprint document will be presented at the Summit of the Americas which will take place in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009 and will also be available on our website at that time.

  This initiative is a collaboration between scholars and receives support from the Center for International Governance and Innovation, Canada; the Council on Foreign Relations, United States; Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, Brazil; and University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

  At the Council on Foreign Relations, this project is part of the Latin America Studies Program and the International Institutions and Global Governance Program. It is made possible by the generous support of Ford Foundation, the Robina Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Conference Three: A Discussion on Energy and the Sustainability of the Amazon Rainforest

  Conference

  Related Project: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas

  This third conference in the series ‘A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas’ was held at the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in February 2009. This conference gathered experts on environmental issues, especially those related to the Amazon rainforest, to discuss how a sustainable energy partnership could address sustainability issues in the Amazon.

   

  Conference One: An Introduction to Energy in the Western Hemisphere and Potential for Collaborative Initiatives

  Conference

  Related Project: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas

  This first conference in the series ‘A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas’ was held at the Council on Foreign Relations in December 2008. The conference gathered energy and foreign policy experts, energy investors, representatives from energy companies, and experts on environmental issues to discuss the current energy matrix in the Western Hemisphere and identify areas for potential cooperation and integration.

   

  Conference Two: A Discussion on Energy Collaboration and Integration in Central America and the Caribbean and on a Hemispheric Energy and Environment Research Initiative

  Conference

  Related Project: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas

  This second conference in the series ‘A Blueprint for a Sustainable Energy Partnership of the Americas’ was held at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago in February 2009. This conference gathered experts on financing energy projects in the Western Hemisphere, Caribbean and Central American energy issues, and private-public research and business partnerships to discuss challenges and opportunities in terms of energy cooperation and integration in the Caribbean and Central America and the need for an energy and environment research initiative for the hemisphere.

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  The United States in the New Asia

  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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  New Books

  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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  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  James M. Lindsay
  Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
  jlindsay@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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  jhill@cfr.org

   

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