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

 

November 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website. In this Issue: IMMIGRATION: CFR Conference Call IMMIGRATION: Visas for Skilled Workers ASIA: President Obama's Trip ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: New CFR Resource IMMIGRATION: CFR Conference Call CFR State and Local Officials Conference Call Series U.S. Immigration Policy Wednesday, November 18, 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. (ET) Speaker: Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, CFR; Director, CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy 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: Visas for Skilled Workers "Stricter Rules for Skilled-Worker Visas Are a Mistake" The recession has added fuel to the debate over skilled-worker visas, including a recent congressional effort to create stricter rules. In this CFR interview, CFR's Jagdish Bhagwati says the United States should be welcoming skilled workers and other immigrants. ==> To read the report of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, click here. ASIA: President Obama's Trip President Obama Tours Asia In the lead up to President Obama's Asia trip, CFR experts Sheila Smith, Joshua Kurlantzick, Elizabeth Economy, and Scott Snyder discuss what the president should focus on during his visit to Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea, respectively. ==> For more CFR resources on Asia, click here. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: New CFR Resource Energy and the Environment Portal on CFR.org Leading U.S. policy experts have identified energy and climate change as issues vital to economic and national security. CFR's new Energy and the Environment portal features research, meetings, interviews, backgrounders, and interactive content that provide an essential source of analysis on these issues. ==> Watch video, listen to audio, and read transcripts of a recent CFR Symposium on Countdown to Copenhagen: What's Next for Climate Change?

EMMY NOMINATION FOR CFR.ORG CRISIS GUIDE! CFR.org has been nominated for the 2009 Business & Financial Reporting Emmy Award for Crisis Guide: The Global Economy. Check out this in-depth, multimedia look at the causes and consequences of the global economic crisis.     FOREIGN AFFAIRS: In the Current Issue "Securing the Information Highway" Authors: Wesley K. Clark and Peter L. Levin November/December 2009 Cyberwarfare is not an abstract future threat. The United States' electronic defenses are vulnerable and Washington must act quickly to secure computer networks, software, and hardware before it is too late.

			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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