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Academic articles by CFR fellows and experts.
April 8, 2008
| Author: | Charles D. Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology |
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Arms Control Today
Charles D. Ferguson discusses the U.S.-Indian nuclear deal.
See more in United States, India, Proliferation
March 26, 2008
| Authors: | Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History Gaurav Tiwari, Research Associate |
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YaleGlobal
In this YaleGlobal piece, Amity Shlaes and Gaurav Tiwari examine entrepreneurship and oil wealth in various countries and how these factors relate to a country’s policy towards the U.S. They find that there is indeed a significant positive relationship between the pro-US votes and the level of enterprise in a country, and that countries with oil tend to be less entrepreneurial as well as less friendly to the US. It seems clear that the US would benefit not only from helping countries strengthen education, the rule of law and free trade, but also from supporting the entrepreneurial culture of any country where the US has an interest.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Energy, U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 20, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Time Magazine
Peter Beinart writes that the Iraq war has spelled the end for muscular moralism in U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Democracy Promotion
March 3, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Time Magazine
“The Democrats may seem divided along class lines,” argues Peter Beinart, “but it's actually the Republicans who need to worry.”
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
February 2008
McKinsey Quarterly
Richard Haass says that businesses have much to learn from government as they compete in an increasingly complex global landscape.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Geoeconomics, International Finance
February 14, 2008
| Author: | Mohamad Bazzi, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow |
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Newsday
Imad Mughniyeh's killing “was the first major attack against a Hezbollah leader since Israel assassinated the group’s secretary-general in 1992,” reports Mohamad Bazzi.
See more in Israel, Lebanon, Terrorist Leaders
February 2008
| Author: | Bradley L. Bowman, International Affairs Fellow |
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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Bradley L. Bowman authors a report to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
See more in United States, Middle East, International Peace and Security, Proliferation
January 18, 2008
| Author: | Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics |
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RGE Monitor
The China Investment Corporation’s $5 billion investment in Morgan Stanley, its $3 billion investment in Blackstone and the China Development Bank’s likely $2b investment in Citigroup have attracted an enormous amount of attention. In this paper for RGE Monitor, Brad Setser examines the unprecedented growth in China ’s foreign assets, the key institutions managing these assets, and the composition of China's aggregate external portfolio.
See more in China, Geoeconomics
December 2007
| Authors: | Abdullah Akyuz Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow |
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CQ Global Researcher
Abdullah Akyuz and Steven Cook discuss whether U.S.-Turkish relations are likely to improve.
See more in United States, Turkey
December 2007
| Authors: | Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics Rachel Ziemba |
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RGE Monitor
With oil at $100, what do we know about how the big oil exporters are managing their petrodollars? In this paper for RGE Monitor, Brad Setser and Rachel Ziemba examine the different GCC funds and estimate that total Gulf investment abroad exceeded $2 trillion in 2007. One surprising conclusion that emerges from their analysis is that the Gulf as a whole has not diversified away from the dollar.
See more in Middle East, Gulf States, Economics
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.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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In this POP, Adjunct Fellow Michelle D. Gavin suggests steps the Bush administration could take to promote political and ethnic reconciliation and to restore the viability of Kenya’s governing institutions.
In this paper, Senior Fellow Daniel Markey poses a set of recommendations for the United States to consider in response to Pakistan’s ongoing political crisis.
To address the growing importance of Africa, the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs present Beyond Humanitarianism, a collection of recent work that explains underlying trends on the continent and provides an absorbing look at Africa’s emergence as a strategic player on the world stage.
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