A Conversation with Ambassador Frederick Barton
Ambassador Fredrick Barton assesses challenges facing his bureau stemming from conflicts around the world.
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Ambassador Fredrick Barton assesses challenges facing his bureau stemming from conflicts around the world.
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Madeleine K. Albright discusses world affairs and her career in U.S. government.
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As the 113th U.S. Congress considers an overhaul of the country's immigration system, Task Force members Richard Land, Eliseo Medina, and project director Edward Alden discuss U.S. policy options and political prospects for comprehensive change.
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Experts discuss current issues in global governance, including how international institutions like the G20 can work together to tackle problems.
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CFR senior fellow Michael A. Levi discusses President Obama's energy agenda and the energy future of America with Anya Schmemann, Director, Editorial Strategy, Studies Program.
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United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon discusses the challenges and responsibilities facing the international community today.
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Experts analyze how changes in defense spending would affect U.S. military strategy.
Christopher J.L. Murray and Jennifer Kates discuss disease from the perspective of shaping U.S. policy, spending priorities, and potential action.
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Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose speaks with Sarah Holewinski and Micah Zenko about John Brennan's appointment as the head of the CIA and the current status and future of the war on terror.
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In her farewell address, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses American leadership.
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George P. Shultz discusses his distinguished career and government service, from the Nixon and Reagan administrations to academia, and shares his thoughts on the present and future foreign policy directions for the United States.
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Dan Coats, member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, discusses how U.S. foreign policy objectives are affected by the federal budget and ongoing debt concerns.
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Experts analyze the current state of the global economic system.
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The 2012 Arthur Ross Book Award event honors gold medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis for his book George F. Kennan: An American Life, as well as silver medalist Jason Stearns and honorable mention Daniel Yergin.
Admiral Dennis Blair and CFR's Micah Zenko discuss U.S. drone strike policies.
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Ash Jain and David F. Gordon discuss the merits of a D10 composed of like-minded and capable democracies from around the world as a mechanism to pursue shared democratic interests and deepen strategic cooperation to face the challenges of today's world.
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Hina Rabbani Khar, the minister for foreign affairs for Pakistan discusses the implications of U.S. and NATO troop reduction and withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S.-Pakistan relations, and details surrounding the U.S. operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.
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Paul B. Stares, David F. Gordon, and Mark L. Schneider discuss conflicts that could break out or escalate in 2013.
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Harvard University professor and economist Martin Feldstein, and Princeton University professor and economist Alan Blinder discuss the implications of the fiscal cliff and how an agreement can be reached.
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The discussion outlines a new U.S. grand strategy focused on reinvigorating solidarity between the United States and established democracies in defense of a world based on liberal principles and the rule of law, with Johns Hopkins University Professor Daniel Deudney, Princeton University Professor G. John Ikenberry, The New York Times columnist David Brooks, and CFR's Stewart M. Patrick.
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