Roundtable Series on America’s Governability Crisis
Director: James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
April 27, 2012 - Present
The Roundtable Series on America's Governability Crisis focuses on the challenge of governing effectively during a time of sharp partisan polarization in Washington. The series seeks to examine the challenges that domestic division poses to developing and executing sound fiscal, economics, defense, and foreign policies. The series is held as part of the Renewing America initiative, which considers how policies at home will directly influence the economic and military strength of the United States and its ability to act in the world.
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
The National Debt Ceiling: Options and Risks
Speakers:
Janet Mullins Grissom, Peck, Madigan, Jones, & Stewart, Inc., Chris Krueger, Guggenheim Securities, Richard R. Verma, Steptoe & Johnson, LLPPresider:
Christopher M. Tuttle, Council on Foreign Relations
February 15, 2013
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Roundtable Meeting
Does the United States Need a New National Security Act?
Speaker:
Gary Hart, Hart International, Ltd.Presider:
James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair; Council on Foreign Relations
February 4, 2013
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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Roundtable Meeting
Is the Era of Middle-Class Prosperity Over?
Speaker:
Hedrick L. Smith, Hedrick Smith ProductionsPresider:
James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
January 18, 2013
12:30-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Roundtable Meeting
The Fiscal Cliff: What’s on the Table
Speakers:
Robert Kahn, Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, Christopher M. Tuttle, Director, Washington Program, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
December 7, 2012
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Roundtable Meeting
America in the Age of Descent
Speaker:
Edward Luce, Organiser, Financial TimesPresider:
James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
May 25, 2012
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Roundtable Meeting
The Middle Class in an Age of Global Finance
Speaker:
Michael Casey, Dow Jones NewswiresPresider:
James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
May 15, 2012
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Roundtable Meeting
America’s Dysfunctional Politics
Speakers:
Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise InstitutePresider:
James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
May 3, 2012
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Roundtable Meeting
The Dysfunction of American Politics
April 27, 2012
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