[RED DEMOCRATICA] CFR State and Local Officials Bulletin: September 2009

 

September 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website. In this Issue: CFR THIS FALL CFR CONFERENCE CALL: Global Economy IMMIGRATION POLICY: New CFR Report HEALTH: Swine Flu Vaccine HOMELAND SECURITY: Secretary Napolitano at CFR HOMELAND SECURITY: NYC Counterterrorism TRADE: Chinese Tire Imports CFR THIS FALL Dear Colleague: I hope that you had a wonderful summer. As we move into fall, I invite you to explore the newest resources from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Also, please stay tuned for the rest of our State and Local Officials Conference Call series fall line-up. For more information, please contact us at outreach@cfr.org. We look forward to your participation in the coming year. Best regards, Irina A. Faskianos Vice President, National Program & Outreach CFR CONFERENCE CALL: Global Economy CFR State and Local Officials Conference Call Series Update on the Global Economy Tuesday, September 29, 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. (ET) Speaker: Roger M. Kubarych, Henry Kaufman Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics and Finance, CFR This call is part of the CFR State and Local Officials Conference Call series. To participate, please email outreach@cfr.org or call Elizabeth McCourt at 212.434.9535. Invitations are transferable but limited to state and local officials and their staff; please share with interested colleagues! IMMIGRATION POLICY: New CFR Report CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force Report: U.S. Immigration Policy Chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former White House chief of staff Thomas F. McClarty III, this report lays out a series of concrete, realistic recommendations for legislation and administrative reforms that would be part of an immigration policy that better serves America's national interests. ==> For more CFR resources on immigration, click here. HEALTH: Swine Flu Vaccine CFR Interview: "Constraints Loom for Swine Flu Vaccine" David Fedson, an international expert in flu vaccine policy, says the current distribution system could leave many developing countries without access to vaccines during a flu pandemic and suggests more attention be given to alternative drug therapies. HOMELAND SECURITY: Secretary Napolitano at CFR Common Threat, Collective Response: Protecting Against Terrorist Attacks in a Networked World Speaking at CFR, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano addressed the threat of networked terrorist organizations and the Department of Homeland Security's strategy to prevent and respond to them. Watch video Listen to audio Read transcript ==> Audio and video files of most CFR on-the-record meetings are made available at www.cfr.org for you to listen to/view at your convenience. To access CFR's extensive meeting archive, please click here. HOMELAND SECURITY: NYC Counterterrorism Is New York a Counterterrorism Model? In this CFR Expert Brief, CFR's Lydia Khalil discusses New York City's sophisticated local and global counterterrorism program, and how the NYPD must now determine from where the next terrorism threat will likely emerge and how best to deploy its resources to address it. ==> For more CFR resources on homeland security, click here. TRADE: Chinese Tire Imports Ill Trade Winds with Beijing In this CFR Daily Analysis, CFR's Robert McMahon examines some analysts' assertion that the U.S.-China disagreement over tire imports could provoke a damaging trade dispute at a time when the two giant economies are needed to lead global economic growth. ==> For more CFR resources on trade, click here.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Subscribe to Foreign Affairs for $19.95/year! CFR is pleased to offer state and local officials a discounted subscription to CFR's journal on international affairs. For more information, please click here.     IN THE CURRENT ISSUE "Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth" Author: Michael A. Levi September/October 2009 Rather than aiming for a broad international treaty at the Copenhagen conference, negotiators should strengthen existing national policies and seek targeted emissions cuts in both rich nations and the developing world. "The Low Carbon Diet" Author: Joel Kurtzman September/October 2009 The free market has eliminated environmental hazards in the past, from leaded gas to acid rain, and it can solve the problem of climate change today. A cap-and-trade system offers the best hope for reducing pollution and encouraging green growth.

			About the State and Local Officials Initiative The CFR State and Local Officials Initiative provides a forum for bipartisan discussion of pressing international issues that affect the priorities and agendas of state and local governments. CFR seeks to serve as a resource of information and analysis on critical local issues including homeland security, public health, immigration, trade, investment, competitiveness, and energy supply. In an effort to become a resource on foreign policy issues of importance at the state and local level, we welcome your suggestions on the types of services and publications that are most useful to you and your colleagues. For more information, please email outreach@cfr.org or call 212.434.9564. About CFR The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. About CFR.org CFR's award-winning website--www.cfr.org--is a "first stop" on the Internet for information on and analysis of U.S. foreign policy and global developments. Full-text reports, Backgrounders, podcasts, Emmy Award-winning interactive crisis guides, and interviews with leading foreign policymakers are available, along with audio and video files and transcripts of on-the-record CFR meetings.

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