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Geithner Answers Questions on His Financial Plan
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaking at Council on Foreign Relations, pledges a new plan to regulate systemic risks to the financial system, including enhanced oversight of "non-banks." In this video, moderator Robert Altman questions Geithner on aspects of his plan. Read More
March 25, 2009 | In Business & Economics, Politics & Policy
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A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflects on the lessons of the past eight years and answer questions about the future of U.S. foreign policy at the CFR International Affairs Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Conference. Read More
June 23, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Iraq, Education, and Children of Conflict
Due to war and sectarian violence, many Iraqi children have fled their homes and are now living as refugees in neighboring countries or as internally displaced persons in Iraq. These children make up about half of the Iraqi population uprooted from their homes, and there is mounting evidence to suggest that they are receiving little or no education. Please join us as our expert panel discusses the steps necessary to improve the education of Iraqi children. Read More
April 9, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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Speakers: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia University Law SchoolPresider: Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsThree experts discuss the interaction between religion and state around the world. Read More
March 26, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Intelligence Analysis: Continuity and Change
Dr. Thomas Fingar discusses controversial national intelligence estimates on Iran and Iraq, changes in intelligence analysis, and new tools available to analysts. Read More
March 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Barry McCaffrey, a retired U.S. army general and adjunct professor of international affairs at West Point, discusses past failings and future options for success in Iraq five years after the war began. Read More
March 20, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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A Conversation with Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) discusses his recent trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, calling Afghanistan the forgotten war. He says the consequences of failure in Afghanistan are significant. Biden notes the next president of the United States will have to rally the American people and the world to fight the militants at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Biden also says “Pakistani cooperation in the fight against extremism is critical†to success in Afghanistan “but that cooperation has been sporadic at best.†Read More
February 26, 2008 | In World
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Three experts discuss whether Russia's increasingly muscular foreign policy could strain tensions with the United States and Europe and spawn a new Cold War. Read More
February 26, 2008 | In World
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