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December 5, 2017
United States
The Status of Women in the Economy
The connection between women’s economic empowerment has been proven to be critical to economic growth and stability, but the share of women in the labor force has stagnated for two decades and signif…
October 11, 2012
Global
Supporting Entrepreneurship: What Works in Developing Economies?
ISOBEL COLEMAN: (In progress from source) -- initiatives and opportunities, including, in some depth, microfinance. Last year our focus was really on the opportunities around mobile technology and d…
May 10, 2011
Development
Women and Development: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter
ISOBEL COLEMAN: Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. I'm Isobel Coleman. I'm a senior fellow here at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the council's Civil Society, Markets, …
June 15, 2016
Global
Strength, Speed, Transparency: Improving UN Peace Operations for the 21st Century
Experts discuss how the UN can provide more rapid, efficient, and reliable support to peace operations, the challenges in reaching these goals, and ways the U.S. government is supporting this mission.
March 22, 2010
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Seeking Nuclear Security Through Greater International Coordination
Overview In April 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama identified nuclear terrorism as the gravest threat to the United States. But debates in the main decision-making bodies in Vienna and New York r…
