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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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August 10, 1999
United States
Pentagon Not Ready for Global Defense Industry, Says New Council on Foreign Relations Book
August 10, 1999, New York City—The end of the Cold War created a crisis for the American military industrial complex, as procurement spending dropped by over 60% in a decade and the export market imp…
September 20, 1999
Global
Safeguarding Proseperity in a Global Financial System: The Future Financial Architecture Report of an Independent Task Force
September 20, 1999 — The international community will not make real headway in crisis prevention if private creditors—and particularly large commercial banks—can escape from bad loans to emerging eco…
October 1, 1999
Inequality
Growing Apart
Read an excerpt of Growing Apart. Is globalization a major contributor to increasing wage inequality? Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality says it is not. Economist…
July 24, 2000
United States
CFR Study Calls for ’Open Marketplace’ with Japan Backed by Assertive Trade Policy
July 28, 2000 --- The next American president should challenge his Japanese counterpart to launch a joint initiative to create a U.S.-Japan "open marketplace"— free of tariffs, with minimal regulator…
October 1, 2000
Asia
Future Directions for U.S. Economic Policy Toward Japan
During the last ten years, Japan has undergone a difficult period of economic stagnation. Only now is the country showing preliminary signs of emerging from an economic slowdown. In response to its d…
