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| Staff: | Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics |
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December 1, 2004 - January 1, 2006
This meeting series is designed to bring Council members together in a small seminar environment to discuss new and innovative thinking at the intersection of economics and foreign policy.
Meetings
Worlds Apart - Measuring International and Global Inequality
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Speaker: | Branko Milanovic, Carnegie Endowment |
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| Presider: | Roger C. Kline, Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc. |
Can American Trade Deficits and Chinese Surpluses be Sustained?
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Speakers: | Nouriel Roubini, Chairman, Roubini Global Economics; Professor of Economics & International Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University |
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| Brad W. Setser, Director of Global Research, Roubini Global Economics; International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002–2003 | |
| Presider: | Peter R. Fisher, Managing Director, BlackRock |
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Speaker: | Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University |
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| Presider: | Yves-Andre Istel, Rothschild North America, Inc. |
Immigration Reform in the United States: Problems and Prospects
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Speaker: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow, International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | William F. Wechsler, Vice President, Greenwich Associates |
Capital Markets Sanctions: Should They Be Part of the Foreign Policy Arsenal?
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Speaker: | Benn Steil |
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| Presider: | William Heyman, Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, The St. Paul Travelers Companies |
The Myth of Monetary Sovereignty
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Presider: | John H. Biggs, Former Chairman & CEO, TIAA-CREF |
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| Speaker: | Manuel Hinds, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
Bailouts or Bail-Ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Presider: | David R. Malpass, Chief Economist, Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. |
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| Speakers: | Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics & International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Brad W. Setser, Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Program, University College, Oxford, Former International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2003-2004) |
International Economic and Financial Cooperation: New Issues, New Actors, New Responses
Related Project: CGS Roundtable Series
| Presider: | Manuel Hinds, Former Finance Minister, El Salvador, and Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Jeffrey R. Shafer, Vice Chairman, Public Sector Client Group, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
| Peter B. Kenen, Senior Fellow, International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations |
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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