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    Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

    Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland November 4, 2022 Renewing America

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    Joshua Kurlantzick analyzes China's attempts to become a media, information, and influence superpower, seeking for the first time to shape the domestic politics, local media, and information environments of the United States, East Asia, parts of Europe, and the broader world.

    Book by Joshua Kurlantzick December 1, 2022 Asia Program

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    Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: The Protests in Iran

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    The EU Response to the War on Ukraine: A Conversation With Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney
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    Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defense Simon Coveney discusses the further invasion of Ukraine, the actions that Ireland and the European Union have taken in response to the crisis, and how countries around the world can assist the Ukrainian people.
    Virtual Event by Simon Coveney March 7, 2022
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    A Conversation With Taoiseach Micheál Martin of Ireland
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    Taoiseach Micheál Martin discusses what he will prioritize while Ireland holds the UN Security Council presidency, the future of transatlantic relations, and Ireland's approach to Brexit.
    Virtual Event by Micheál Martin September 22, 2021
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    Moving Past the Troubles: The Future of Northern Ireland Peace
    The Good Friday Agreement has dampened sectarian tensions and brought stability to Northern Ireland, but Brexit border arrangements and growing dissatisfaction are throwing the region’s hard-won gains into doubt.
    Backgrounder by Charles Landow and James McBride April 23, 2021
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    Arthur Ross Book Award: “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland”
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    Gideon Rose celebrates the winners of this year’s Arthur Ross Book Award: Patrick Radden Keefe, George Packer, and William Dalrymple. The program will include an award ceremony and a conversation with Keefe on the Northern Ireland conflict.
    Webinar by Patrick Radden Keefe, George Packer and William Dalrymple December 9, 2020 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award
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    The Irish Shock to U.S. Manufacturing?
     Over the last fifteen years, U.S. production of pharmaceuticals has fallen while imports have soared. It is worth asking why.   
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser May 15, 2020 Follow the Money
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    Ireland Really Shouldn't be Driving the Details of the Euro Area's GDP Data
    The euro area GDP data—thanks to Ireland—is increasingly telling us more about the tax strategies of large U.S. firms and less about the actual composition of activity in the euro area. Large investments in acquisition of their own intellectual property by U.S. firms transforming themselves into tax residents of Ireland ahead of the end of the double Irish are impacting the economic data of the entire currency union.
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser April 27, 2020 Follow the Money
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    Tax Games: Big Pharma Versus Big Tech
    American pharmaceutical companies are skilled at using transfer pricing to shift the profit on their U.S. sales out of the United States. That is why the United States' trade deficit in pharmaceuticals is now bigger than the United States' trade surplus in aircraft.
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser February 12, 2020 Follow the Money
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    Brexit’s Finish Line Is Only the "End of the Beginning" for Britain and the European Union
    The United Kingdom faces numerous uncertainties as Brexit nears its nominal finish line.
    Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick January 13, 2020 The Internationalist
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    Brexit’s Finish Line Is Only the "End of the Beginning" for Britain and the European Union
    The United Kingdom faces numerous uncertainties as Brexit nears its nominal finish line.
    Article by Stewart M. Patrick January 13, 2020
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    Ireland’s Statistical Cry for Help…
    Ireland's tax authorities have made the job of Ireland's statistical authorities almost impossible.   The distortions in the Irish data are now so big that the impact the data for the entire euro area.   
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser November 1, 2019 Follow the Money
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    $500 Billion in Dividends out of the Double Irish with a Dutch twist (with a bit of Help from Bermuda)
    Tax is often the biggest factor in the balance of payments. U.S. firms operating in Bermuda paid $229 billion in dividends back to their U.S. parents in 2018. That’s more than the United States earned from exporting to China before the trade war, and more than Boeing and GE generated by exporting aircraft and their engines even before the new 737 was grounded.
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser August 12, 2019 Follow the Money
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    Finding Ireland in the U.S. Balance of Payments Data ...
    Turns out a small and very green island dominates financial flows from "other euro area countries."  Ireland's impact, of course, is a case study in the role that "trade-in-tax" plays in driving global trade and financial flows in today's global economy.
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser July 16, 2019 Follow the Money
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    When Tax Drives the Trade Data
    The pharmaceutical industry's tax strategies appear to have a large impact on the trade data. There isn't any other obvious explanation for why the (goods) deficit in pharmaceuticals exceeds the surplus in civil aircraft..
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser March 26, 2019 Follow the Money
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    Brexit’s Stickiest Point: The Irish Backstop
    UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been unable to convince her own party to pass the Brexit deal she negotiated with the European Union because of its backstop provision. What is it, and why does it matter?
    In Brief by Andrew Chatzky March 19, 2019
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    Why the U.S. Tax Reform's International Provisions Need to Be Reformed
    I wanted to follow up on a few points that I didn’t have space to explore in my New York Times op-ed on the international provisions of Trump’s corporate tax reform. The first is that, well, there…
    Blog Post by Brad W. Setser February 19, 2019 Follow the Money
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