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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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In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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.
Complete list of CFR Books.
After two decades of liberalization, many countries around the world are adopting new restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) that could retard continued progress. The authors make recommendations for correcting this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.
In this Council Special Report, the authors make a strong case that the Bush administration’s policy of diplomatic isolation of Syria is not serving U.S. interests, and offer informed history and thoughtful analysis of the country and its external behavior.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1-212-434-9627
gsamore@cfr.org
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1-212-434-9753
jhill@cfr.org
The David Rockefeller Studies Program is the Council’s “think tank.” Its work is integral to achieving the Council’s goal of contributing to the foreign policy debate. Fellows in the Studies Program do this by researching, writing, and commenting on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
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