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| Staff: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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January 1, 1999 - June 30, 2002
Publications
February 2003
This thought-provoking retrospective culls the views of economists, international financial institutions, Wall Street, organized labor, and various public-interest organizations on how to fortify the U.S. global financial infrastructure. The effort is the culmination of an eighteen-month study that sought to encourage the evolution of middle-class-oriented economic development in emerging-market countries.
Meetings
An International Financial Architecture for Middle-Class Oriented Development
Related Project: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance
| Panelist: | Greyson L. Bryan, Partner, O'Melveny & Meyers, LLP |
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| Speaker: | Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relation |
Towards a New Financial Architecture
Related Project: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance
| Speakers: | Sherle R. Schwenninger, Adviser, Working Group on Development, Trade and International Finance, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Cultural Contradictions of Post-Communism: Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia?
Related Projects: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance, Roundtable on Russian Nationalism and Foreign Policy
| Panelists: | Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Astrid S. Tuminez, Adjunct Next Generation Fellow, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | |
| Speaker: | Nina Khrushcheva, Director of Special Projects, East-West Institute, World Policy Institute, New School University, New York |
Contact: Laurence Reszetar 212-434-9539 or ireszetar@cfr.org
Sustainable Development and the Open-Door Policy in China
Related Project: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance
| Presider: | Sherle R. Schwenninger, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Panelist: | Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Speakers: | James K. Galbraith, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, and the Jerome Levy Economics Institute |
| Jaiqing Lu, Applied Economics Consulting Group |
Reforming the Reform Agenda for Transitional Economies
Related Project: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Joseph E. Stiglitz, The World Bank |
Session V: Building the Financial Infrastructure for Middle-Class Emerging Economies
Related Project: Working Group on Development, Trade, and International Finance
| Speaker: | Jane D'Arista |
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
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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