June 19, 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website.
 | | | | | |  | | Iran Out of Balance Following massive protests over Iran's presidential election results, Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert, says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may have to sacrifice President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to save himself. Read more
Book: Guardians of the Revolution- Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs, by Ray Takeyh
Op-ed: "Five Ways Obama Could Promote Freedom in Iran," by Daniel Senor and Christian Whiton ( Wall Street Journal)
Gwertzman Interview: with Gary Sick on how the United States should react to Iran's "stolen election" Interview with Mohsen Milani on Iranian presidents' role in policymaking
| |  | | | | | | | |  | | The Recession in Historical Context How does the current economic and financial downturn match up to past contractions? A new analysis by Paul Schwartz provides some answers by plotting current indicators against the average of all post–World War II recessions on a series of graphs. Read more Chart Book: Foreign exchange reserves in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC countries) by Brad Setser and Arpana Pandey Meeting Transcript, Audio, Video: "Reflections on Economic Policy in a Time of Crisis," with Lawrence Summers and Carla Hills Council Special Report: Lessons of the Financial Crisis, by Benn Steil Meeting Transcript, Audio: "Global Financial Crisis and the Road to Recovery," with Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, OECD, and Jessica Einhorn Working Paper: "China's $1.5 Trillion Bet: Understanding China's External Portfolio," by Brad Setser and Arpana Pandey Interactive: Global economy in crisis Meeting Transcript, Audio, Video: "Reforming Global Finance: The Squam Lake Papers," with Sebastian Mallaby, Matthew Slaughter, Kenneth French, and Martin Baily Squam Lake Working Group Papers on regulating financial markets, regulatory hybrid securities, reforming capital requirements, and information infrastructure for financial markets CFR experts on Geoeconomics, Financial Crises | | | | | This Week in Foreign Affairs | | | Foreign Affairs' weekly eNewsletter brings all the content on its website, ForeignAffairs.com, directly to your inbox. Special features include interactive discussions with authors, essential reading lists by the experts, and author updates on timely topics in the news. To receive these exclusive updates not found in the print magazine, sign up here. | | | | | | 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 acting editor Robert McMahon and Foreign Affairs' managing editor Gideon Rose, it is one of CFR.org's most popular podcasts. Listen to the Friday, June 19 podcast by clicking here. | | | | | | CFR Experts in the News | | | Afghanistan (6/17): Stephen Biddle aruges that the best policy for Afghanistan is for President Obama to defend an "expensive, risky, potentially unpopular war," in the American Interest. Zimbabwe (6/17): Michael Gerson writes that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's power-sharing agreement with Mugabe is a "calculated risk" in the Washington Post. Afghanistan (6/17): Max Boot writes in favor of Gen. McChrystal's decision to set up a Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell, in the Wall Street Journal. Afghanistan (6/16): Isobel Coleman and Masuda Sultan argue that Afghan mullahs are the key to American success, on the Huffington Post. Iraq (6/15): Leslie Gelb and Jeanne Paloma-Zelmati analyze the media and print reporting leading up to the war in Iraq, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Israel (6/15): Michael Gerson writes in response to the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, "when the rights of Jews are violated, all human rights are insecure," in the Washington Post. Middle East (6/15): Leslie Gelb writes that Netanyahu "made some significant points that Washington shouldn't ignore," in the Daily Beast. Middle East (6/14): Elliott Abrams argues that Netanyahu's speech conveyed a resistance to President Obama's pressure to stop settlements, in the Weekly Standard. Trade (6/12): Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya argue that "it is necessary that we do not put into the same hopper both illegal and legal protectionism," in the Financial Times. Presidency (6/12): Charles Kupchan writes about three lessons that President Obama can learn from President Wilson in Newsday. Iran (6/11): Elliott Abrams argues that Lebanon's recent elections can be considered "free," while Iran's elections should not, in the New York Times. | | | | | |
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