Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jessica T. Mathews, Tom Burke and Laurence Tubiana on what the EU and the U.S. need to do to address climate change.
Panel of experts, including Kemal Dervis, on the global implications of the financial crisis.
Expectations are running high for major changes in the next U.S. administration's foreign policy, but how much change is likely, and will it be enough to close the gap between America and the world? Top experts from the Carnegie Endowment and elsewhere discussed this question during a two-day conference in Brussels.
Panel discussion on the expectations of China and India of the next U.S. president, and the rising importance of those expectations.
As the U.S. government steps in to rescue the financial system, Latin American leaders are using the crisis to justify their own leftist policies, claiming the United States' free-market approach has collapsed. But some U.S. scholars see a middle ground; future regulation may help guide markets on the national and even the global stage, without completely departing from the free market system.
Although much of the world is relying on an American economic recovery to fend off a global recession, China has proven that it can support its own growth.
The financial crisis in the US provide a strong indication of how Wall Street has become the "near abroad" of Arab investors and how tightly the Arab world is weaved into global financial markets. How it navigates the financial turmoil is going to make a huge impact on its reputation and standing among other global investors.
The rise of China as a major economic, cultural, and military force in has fundamentally altered the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. Doug Paal from the Carnegie Endowment, and Geoffry Barret from the European Commission, discussed how the U.S. and the EU should respond to this new dynamic.
In the midst of a wrenching global financial crisis, business and academic experts from around the world met in Beijing to discuss the causes and implications of the crisis. Although there was disagreement over the severity of the crisis, all participants agreed that it marks the end of the unbridled free-market economy in the U.S.
Since its inception in Fall 2006, the series has addressed the most critical—and controversial—issues involving China's economic, socio-political, and military evolution and their policy implications for policy makers on Capitol Hill.