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| Staff: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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July 1, 2001 - Present
The first book generated by this study group was The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century, by Charles A. Kupchan, the project director. The study group played a key role in providing feedback on the book during the drafting of the manuscript. The book addresses how the United States can manage peacefully the transition to a world of multiple centers of power.
The current phase of the study group focuses on understanding the sources of stable peace – how groupings of countries can form lasting partnerships and eliminate geopolitical competition. A book on this topic, along with several articles, will be the main published product. The book will examine a number of historical case studies of rapprochement, security communities and unions, exploring how zones of peace form and when and why they sometimes unravel. The book will draw policy conclusions relevant to preserving current zones of peace – such as the Atlantic community – as well as building new ones – such as in East Asia.
The Contending Paradigms Study Group is made possible through the generosity of John McCloy.
Publications
November 2002
| Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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At a time when American primacy appears to be stronger than ever, Council Fellow and Georgetown Professor Charles Kupchan argues that the end of Pax Americana is near. What will replace American supremacy, and how American leaders should prepare for this new era, are the central questions of this provocative new book.
Meetings
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Miles Kahler, Director, Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies and Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road (Dinner)
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | George Lee Butler, General, USAF (Ret.) |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | John E. Rielly, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; Author, The End of the American Era |
After Pax Americana
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The End of the American Era
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Presider: | Jay M. Vogelson, (Dallas Host); Shareholder - Director, Stutzman & Bromberg |
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| Panelist: | Rena M. Pederson, Editorial Page Editor, Dallas Morning News |
| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow and Director of Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
After Pax Americana (New York)
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Project Director; Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow and Director, Europe, Council on Foreign Relations |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The End of the Unipolar Moment
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Project Director; Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow and Director, Europe, Council on Foreign Relations |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The Grand Strategy and the Paradox of American Power
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Stephen M. Walt, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard university |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Grand Strategy and the Paradox of American Power
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Hegemony or Multipolarity in the 21st Century?
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Peter Tarnoff, President, International Advisory Corporation |
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| Speakers: | Lawrence J. Korb, Vice President, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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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