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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 24, 2010
International Organizations
The World Trade Organization and The Global Economic Crisis
The WTO's Pascal Lamy discusses global trade and the state of the international economy.
June 24, 2010
International Organizations
The World Trade Organization and the Global Economic Crisis
Pascal Lamy will discuss how the global trading system helped to stabilize the global economic crisis and how it can do more. Related Readings: The Vanishing WTO by Marc Levinson Greenberg Center …
November 14, 2005
United States
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin Selected to Head the Council’s Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and to Hold the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics
November 14, 2005—Council President Richard N. Haass has named Douglas Holtz-Eakin, current director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the new director of the Council’s Maurice R. Greenberg C…
January 24, 2013
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Confirmation Hearings Begin for Obama’s Cabinet Nominees, Biden Visits Europe, and the WTO Searches for Its Next Director-General
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the confirmation hearings for President Obama’s cabinet nominees, Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Europe, and the World Trade Organi…
November 6, 2013
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Looking Past the Inbox: Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations
Every year, it seems, a new group of eminences grises issues a report deploring the state of the world and purporting to offer a roadmap out of our predicament. These documents tend to be short on im…
