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  The U.S. in the New Asia

  As President Obama gears up for his Asian tour, CFR Senior Fellow Evan Feigenbaum suggests policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to the changing Asian landscape.

  Related Materials

  
  

  • CFR Symposium: China 2025
  • CFR Interview Series: President Obama Tours Asia

  United Nations

  The UN moves hundreds of foreign staff from Afghanistan after an attack last week. The New York Times reports on the destabilizing security situation in the region.

  IIGG Event: Future of the UN | Boot: Winning Afghanistan

   

  Global Economy

  The U.S. economy has begun to grow. In a CGS/IIGG working paper, Jeffry A. Frieden examines global imbalances, national rebalancing, and the political economy of recovery

  Dunaway: Global Imbalances | Monitor: Global Finance

   

  Expert Opinion and Analysis

  Expert Briefs

  Troubling Turnover on UN Security Council

  Kara C. McDonald

   

   

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  Why China May Stumble

  Steven Dunaway

   

   

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  What Americans Want from the United Nations

  Stewart M. Patrick

   

   

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  Working Papers

  Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery

  Jeffry A. Frieden

  October 2009

   

   

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  The Gloomy Prospects for World Growth

  Steven Dunaway

  September 2009

   

   

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  Op-Eds from CFR Fellows

  Iran's Nuclear Diversion

  Ray Takeyh

  November 5, 2009

   

   

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  Nigeria: Progress Towards Rule of Law

  John Campbell

  November 4, 2009

   

   

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  Pull the Plug on the Afghan Surge

  Charles A. Kupchan and Steven Simon

  November 3, 2009

   

   

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  Interviews

  Honduran Politics and the Chavez Factor

  October 30, 2009

   

   

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  Wariness on Bilateral Process With North Korea

  October 26, 2009

   

   

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  Nuclear Enrichment Deal With Iran Buys Time

  October 22, 2009

   

   

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  Resources on Global Governance

  Backgrounders

  Iran's Ballistic Missile Program

  Despite concerns over Iran's nuclear program, the Obama administration has assessed that Tehran is years from a developing a long-range...

   

   

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  Understanding Myanmar

  Myanmar's people continue to struggle for freedom despite having achieved independence from colonial rule almost six decades ago.

   

   

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  The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions

  Decades of economic and diplomatic sanctions have failed to substantively alter the actions of the Iranian regime, especially regarding its...

   

   

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  Washington Quarterly

  Prix Fixe and a la Carte

  In this issue of the Washington Quarterly, Stewart Patrick says the United States should avoid false multilateral choices.

  Foreign Affairs Articles

  Reshaping the World Order

  Stephen Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

   

   

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  An Agenda for NATO

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

   

   

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  Low and Behold

  Edward L. Morse

   

   

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  The Dollar Dilemma

  Barry J. Eichengreen

   

   

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  Interactive: Monitor

  Nuclear Proliferation

  

  Global Finance

  

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  IIGG Meetings

  IIGG COSPONSORSHIP

  Building a More Effective United Nations: Opportunities for the Obama Administration

  In April, the IIGG cosponsored a meeting on UN reform at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Watch the video for the event here.

  Transcripts

  Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Illusion or Possibility

  November 4, 2009, New York.

   

   

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  Russia Update: Is the Reset Working?

  October 28, 2009

   

   

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  Global Economic Trends: The Business of Aid

  October 20, 2009, Washington D.C.

   

   

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  China 2025: Keynote III: The U.S. and China in 2025

  October 19, 2009, Washington D.C.

   

   

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  CFR Books and Reports

  Books

  

  The Best Laid Plans

  In his latest book, Stewart Patrick examines the origins of American multilateralism and the dawn of the Cold War.

   

   

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  Restoring the Balance

  In Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Saban Center...

   

   

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  Termites in the Trading System

  In this book, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how preferential trade agreements have recreated the unhappy situation of the protectionist 1930s,...

   

   

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  Regional Monetary Integration

  This book seeks to explain why governments contemplate regional monetary integration and why some country groups are more likely than others...

   

   

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  Reports

  

  Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action

  Council Special Report No. 48

  The United States can ill afford the burden of additional foreign policy challenges, making it imperative that the U.S. government find ways...

   

   

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  The Canadian Oil Sands

  Council Special Report No. 47

  The Canadian oil sands present an important challenge to policymakers: they promise energy security benefits but present climate change...

   

   

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  The National Interest and the Law of the Sea

  Council Special Report No. 46

  Seaborne commerce remains the linchpin of the global economy. And beyond trade, a host of other issues, ranging from climate change and...

   

   

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  Lessons of the Financial Crisis

  Council Special Report No. 45

  In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary,...

   

   

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