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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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December 1, 2021
Defense and Security
Academic Webinar: African Politics and Security Issues
Michelle Gavin, CFR’s Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies, leads a conversation on African politics and security issues. FASKIANOS: Welcome to today’s session of the CFR…
March 26, 1999
Afghanistan
Testimony on the Situation in Afghanistan Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Recent Events and Political Actors in AfghanistanFor policy recommendations, see text of oral testimony1. INTRODUCTION: SUMMARY OVERVIEW1On August 8, 1998, the Taliban (Islamic student) movement of A…
June 1, 2011
Gender
Innovations and Innovators: Using Agricultural Technologies to Empower Women
PEDRO SANCHEZ: (In progress.) I was -- I joined Columbia University to start agriculture there, tropical agriculture -- interesting thing for a major urban university to do. And then Secretary --…
January 27, 2009
Homeland Security
Homeland Security in Transition: Rebuilding Critical Infrastructure
With the Department of Homeland Security in the midst of its first presidential transition, what changes can the nation expect? President Obama’s economic stimulus plan suggests nearly 400,000 jobs w…
December 1, 2008
Capital Flows
Action, Reaction, or Over-Reaction?
Watch Nobel Laureate in economics, A. Michael Spence, analyze the many policy measures addressing the global crisis.