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May 14, 2008
| Speakers: | Charlene Barshefsky, Task Force Co-Chair and Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Llp, Former U.S. Trade Representative General James T. Hill (Ret.), Task Force Co-Chair, Former Commander, U.S. Southern Command, and President, The Jt Hill Group, Inc. Shannon O'Neil, Task Force Director and Fellow for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Karen J. DeYoung, Associate Editor and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, The Washington Post |
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See more in United States, South America
October 22, 2007
Essential Documents
Initiative
See more in Mexico, United States, Society and Culture
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October 10, 2007
| Speaker: | Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State |
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| Presider: | Carla A. Hills, Chairman and CEO Hills and Company; Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations |
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses recent trade agreements with Peru, Columbia, and Panama.
See more in Central America, Colombia, Peru, Trade
September 5, 2007
Podcast
Maureen Meyer, associate for Mexico and Central America at the Washington Office on Latin America, discusses the violent run-up to Guatemala's September 8 elections and public security issues in Central America.
See more in Central America, Elections, U.S. Strategy and Politics
April 2007
| Author: | Manuel Hinds, Former Salvadoran Finance Minister |
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Academic Module
This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policymakers on how to deal with them.
See more in Economic Development
April 23, 2007
| Speaker: | Carlos Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary Of Commerce |
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| Presider: | Ann M. Fudge, Former Chairwoman and Chief Executive, Young & Rubicam, Inc. |
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez, addresses members of the Council about the promise of Latin America.
See more in South America, Trade
April 9, 2007
Podcast
Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive and director of its Cuba and Chile documentation projects, discusses the Archive's work in Latin America.
See more in South America, Democracy Promotion, Information & Communication
November 28, 2006
| Speakers: | Richard E. Feinberg, Co-Director, Leadership Council on Inter-American Summitry; Professor, International Political Economy, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University Of California, San Diego David J. Rothkopf, Chairman and CEO, The Rothkopf Group, LLC; Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Pamela Starr, Analyst, Latin America, Eurasia Group; Author, Challenges for a Postelection Mexico: Issues for U.S. Policy, A Council on Foreign Relations Special Report |
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| Presider: | Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow and Director, Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Pamela Starr, Richard Feinberg, David Rothkopf, and Julia Sweig discuss recent presidential elections in Latin America.
See more in South America, Elections
November 1, 2006
Podcast
Stephen Kinzer, veteran New York Times reporter and author of the recent book Overthrow, discusses the upcoming Nicaraguan presidential elections and the United States' vocal opposition to Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega.
See more in Central America, Elections
Updated November 8, 2006
Daily Analysis
The United States has vocally opposed Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega, the winner of Nicaragua’s presidential election. But Nicaraguans are more concerned about a political pact that threatens to derail their country’s democratic institutions.
See more in Central America, Business & Foreign Policy
The New York Times Book Review calls Julia Sweig’s new book Friendly Fire a “sweeping and pungent review of abrasive American foreign policies.”
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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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