September 20, 1999
GlobalSeptember 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…
February 15, 2000
LebanonOverview At first glance, Hizballah's position on the State Department's list of groups that sponsor terrorism would seem to be secure.1 This is not hard to understand, because since the early 198…
October 1, 2000
AsiaDuring 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…
March 23, 2004
United StatesWritten Testimony before a hearing of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate on “U.S.-Mexico: Immigration Policy & The Bilateral Relationship” Stephen E. F…
October 18, 2004
Sub-Saharan AfricaCouncil on Foreign RelationsNew York, N.Y. NICHOLAS KRISTOF: I'm Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times. A couple of announcements first of all. Those of you with cell phones, please do remembe…
February 17, 2006
Defense TechnologyWatch U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld address the Council on Foreign Relations on the war in Iraq and the challenges of modernizing U.S. forces' communications capabilities in "today's medi…
February 17, 2006
Defense Technology12:15–1:00 p.m. Lunch1:00–2:00 p.m. MeetingSeating is limited.This meeting will be on the record.
September 8, 2006
Homeland Security10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Meeting
September 8, 2006
Homeland SecurityWatch experts discuss what individuals and organizations can do to make New York safer.
February 22, 2007
SomaliaRecent weeks have witnessed a dramatic turn of events in Somalia, including the defeat of the Islamic Courts in the capital, international economic and development assistance to stabilize the country…