December 17, 2008
Transcript
A Council on Foreign Relations Meeting as part of the Peter McCullough series on international economics.
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December 12, 2008
Transcript
Walter Lukken, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discusses how commodity trading, speculation, and regulation affect the international financial markets.
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December 1, 2008
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November 25, 2008
Backgrounder
The nominee for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, brings experience in global financial crisis management for the Fed, expertise on Asia, and perspective from work with the International Monetary Fund.
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November 25, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts including former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson discuss what implications the 2008 financial crisis is likely to have for securities regulation.
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November 25, 2008
Video
Watch experts including former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson discuss what implications the 2008 financial crisis is likely to have for securities regulation.
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November 24, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts debate causes of the financial crisis and what needs to happen for the global financial markets to recover.
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November 24, 2008
Video
Watch experts debate causes of the financial crisis and what needs to happen for the global financial markets to recover.
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November 17, 2008
Expert Brief
CFR's Latin America Studies Program outlines the implications of the global financial crisis for Latin America.
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November 14, 2008
Expert Brief
The Gulf and the financial crisis.
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Gaza Violence (1/5): Steven Cook writes in U.S. News & World Report that Israel's exercise of military power in the Gaza Strip, employed legitimately or not, is unlikely to achieve its desired goals.
The Obama Administration (1/5): Michael Gerson writes that Obama “will require sober supporters--and loyal critics--to get through challenges” in 2009, in the Washington Post.
Border Security (1/3): Edward Alden urges President-elect Obama to begin rebuilding trust with Canada as a partner in trade and counterterrorism when he takes office, in the Ottawa Citizen.
Energy and Environment (1/3): David Victor and Arun Rai warn that “the global environment may be one of the biggest losers in the current financial crisis” as clean coal projects are abandoned around the world, in Newsweek.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1/2): Michael Gerson writes that the removal of the threat Hamas poses to the Israeli people is “the prerequisite for the resumption of the peace process,” in the Washington Post.
The Obama Administration (12/31): Amity Shlaes argues that “a new hundred days spent making good laws will bring sturdy recovery,” in the Washington Post.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
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In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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