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January 11, 2007

Financial Markets
Cracks in the GCC’s commitment to the dollar peg?

From Simon Derrick of the Bank of New York. Reuters reports that central bank governors of the UAE will meet in March to discuss currency pegs. The agency cites Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi wh…

January 14, 2009

Global
CFR’s Center for Universal Education Proposes Blueprint for Global Education Fund

With 300 million children out of school globally, including seventy-two million primary school-age children, a new Center for Universal Education (CUE) Working Paper urges the United States to take t…

April 29, 2009

United States
War of Necessity, War of Choice: CFR President Richard Haass’s Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

CFR President Richard N. Haass was one of a handful of top government officials--along with Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bob Gates--involved in the decision-making process during bo…

August 7, 2013

United States
GDP and Economic Policy

Economists who want to compare the living standards of countries often use GDP, but the calculation and usefulness of the measurement remains controversial.

GDP

December 27, 2018

United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year. 

President George H.W. Bush greets troops in Saudi Arabia during a 1990 Thanksgiving visit.