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May 26, 2023
Taiwan
Women This Week: Last of Taiwan’s Known “Comfort Women” Passes Away
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers May 20 to May 26.
May 15, 2020
Afghanistan
Women This Week: Attack on Maternity Ward in Kabul
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering May 7 to May 15, was compiled by Maleeha …
April 12, 2021
Technology and Innovation
Technology and Youth Represent Nigeria’s Path Out of the Woods
The voice of Nigeria’s youth was heard at the EndSars protests and through the emergence of Paystack and Flutterwave, which were a breath of fresh air in an otherwise foul news climate around the cou…
May 12, 2023
Sudan
Women This Week: Thousands of Women and Girls Without Medical Care After Hospital Attacks in Sudan
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers May 6 to May 12.
September 10, 2013
Europe and Eurasia
The Battle of Bretton Woods
Teaching Notes on The Battle of Bretton Woods by CFR Senior Fellow Benn Steil.
May 9, 2023
Trade
Mercosur: South America’s Fractious Trade Bloc
Three decades after its founding, Latin America’s largest trade bloc continues to deal with internal divisions, including over a stalled trade deal with the European Union. How could the return of Brazil’s Lula change the calculus?
June 30, 2014
Global
Bretton Woods Lessons
The 1944 Bretton Woods conference ensured a leading role for Washington in the global financial system but also contributed to present-day problems that will be difficult to fix, says CFR’s Benn Stei…
June 1, 2023
Economics
How an SDR Bond Can Boost Concessional and Climate Financing
Combining an SDR with budget funding is the most efficient way of stretching the budgeted dollars (and euros).
June 5, 2009
Monetary Policy
The return of Bretton Woods Two? (or Bretton Woods 2.1?)
If you read the headlines earlier this week, you might well have concluded that the dollar’s days as the world’s leading reserve currency are numbered. Yu Yongding of China’s Academy of Social Sc…
April 29, 2013
Europe and Eurasia
Eric Rauchway Battles "The Battle of Bretton Woods"
Benn’s new book The Battle of Bretton Woods has been called “the gold standard on its topic” by the New York Times, “a triumph of economic and diplomatic history” by the Financial Times, and “a su…
