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September 26, 2008
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In a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations, the UK's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband, shares his views on Western opportunity, and rising world powers.
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September 26, 2008
Video
Watch British Foreign Minister David Miliband discuss Transatlantic relations, developments in the Middle East, and other foreign policy issues of mutual concern to Britain and the United States.
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September 26, 2008
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September 25, 2008
Op-Ed
The Olympian
Stewart Patrick discusses why President Bush's address to the U.N. had the right content, but lacked validity.
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September 24, 2008
Transcript
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation, discusses Russian geoeconomic relations in a CFR meeting.
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September 23, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
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September 20, 2008
Must Read
The French president did more than anyone expected regarding Russia—but there's much more to be done.
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Updated: September 19, 2008
Backgrounder
At the 2008 UN General Assembly, the world's deliberative body opens its sixty-third annual session. The global food crisis, nuclear proliferation, climate change, and reform of the Security Council seem likely to loom large.
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September 18, 2008
Podcast
CFR.org Executive Editor Michael Moran and The Economist Executive Editor Daniel Franklin preview major world events in the week ahead.
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Updated: September 18, 2008
Backgrounder
A profile of the UN's senior leadership position—the organization's secretary-general. What tasks are incumbent on the official, and how have past secretary-generals interpreted the role?
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Economic Crisis (10/10): Sebastian Mallaby argues that, “the fastest and fairest way to help ordinay people is via a budget stimulus package,” in the Washington Post.
Iran (10/10): Michael Gerson writes about diplomacy and the potential of a nuclear Iran, in the Washington Post.
U.S. Presidential Election (10/10): Peter Beinart discusses the role of race in the presidential campaigns, in Time .
China (10/9): Brian Klein argues that, “China's economy is actually facing a fundamental structural adjustment that has arrived much earlier than expected,” in the Far East Economic Review .
Financial Markets (10/9): Amity Shlaes writes, “this week's declines by stock markets ... are the prudent actions of a crowd crying 'fraud' and anticipating the inevitable,” on Bloomberg.com.
Healthcare Reform (10/8): Michael Gerson compares the healthcare plans of the presidential candidates, in the Washington Post.
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.
In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.
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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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