November 13, 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website.
 | |  | | | | | |  | | A Chance for Climate Change Momentum Ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference, experts gathered at a CFR symposium say even if U.S. strategy isn't fully worked out, the conference will be an important platform for awareness about climate change. Read, watch more Symposium Session One Transcript, Audio, Video: "Copenhagen in a Global Context" with Atul Arya, chief adviser for energy and climate policy at BP, Jose Goldemberg, Brazil's former environment secretary, and Sun Guoshun, first secretary at the Chinese Embassy Session Two Transcript, Audio, Video: "Connecting Domestic and International Action," keynote by Congressman Edward Markey, chair of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Foreign Affairs: "Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth - How to Salvage the Climate Conference" by Michael Levi Interactive: Crisis Guide - Climate Change Foreign Affairs: "The Low Carbon Diet - How the Market Can Curb Climate Change" by Joel Kurtzman Interview: "Copenhagen's Conundrum" with Michael Levi
Independent Task Force Report: Confronting Climate Change - A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy by Michael Levi, George Pataki, and David Victor CFR experts on Energy/Environment | | | | | | The World Next Week Podcast | | | The World Next Week is an audio preview of world events in the week ahead. Presented by CFR.org's editor Robert McMahon and Foreign Affairs' managing editor Gideon Rose, it is one of CFR.org's most popular podcasts. Listen to the Friday, November 13, podcast. | | | | | | November/December Issue of Foreign Affairs | | | The November/December issue of Foreign Affairs is now online and on newsstands. In this issue: CFR's Bronwyn Bruton writes that the United States misunderstands the terrorist threat posed by Somalia and is only exacerbating the situation by supporting the Transitional Federal Government.
Georgetown's Keir Lieber and Dartmouth's Daryl Press advise the Obama administration to retain significant nuclear capabilities—or risk basing U.S. nuclear deterrence on a dangerous bluff. Wesley Clark, former supreme commander of NATO, and Peter Levin, formerly the CEO of the cybersecurity company DAFCA, write on the need to secure U.S. computer networks, software, and hardware from cyberterrorism. The rest of the issue, along with Foreign Affairs' web-only features like expert reading lists, roundtable debates, "snapshots" of important issues, and online conversations with authors, can be found at ForeignAffairs.com. | | | | | | CFR Experts in the News | | | Nigeria (11/12): John Campbell writes newly-proposed oil industry reforms will likely be ineffective, in GlobalPost. Pakistan (11/12): Daniel Markey examines the identity, interests, and popular standing of Pakistan's major leaders, in NBR Analysis. Economics (11/10): Amity Shlaes on economists during different eras, on Bloomberg.com. Germany (11/9): James Goldgeier examines what the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for the Republican party, on Politico.com. Iraq (11/9): Max Boot writes, "despite the headlines about bombings in Baghdad, the situation has improved immeasurably," in the Weekly Standard. Afghanistan (11/9): Leslie Gelb says the U.S. military's request to increase troops should be scrutinized, on the Daily Beast. History (11/8): James Goldgeier on the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the Washington Times. Economics (11/4): Roger Kubarych says that a recovery based solely on improved productivity won't gain much traction unless workers share in gains, in the Nikkei. | | | | | |
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