Hosts: Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Robert McMahon, Editor, CFR.org
December 2, 2009
CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon, and Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Gideon Rose preview major world events in the week ahead.
In this week's podcast: The Obama administration moves to implement its new strategy in Afghanistan; United Nations climate change talks begin in Copenhagen; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan begins an official visit to the U.S.; And the U.S. and Russia prepare to sign a new agreement to cut atomic weapons as the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires.
The World Next Week is a coproduction of CFR.org and Foreign Affairs.
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