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  Global Public Opinion

  The IIGG program has released Public Opinion on Global Issues, a comprehensive digest of polling data on U.S. and global public attitudes on the world's most pressing challenges.

  Related Materials

  
  

  • Patrick: What Americans Want from the UN
  • CFR Event: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

  

  U.S. and the ICC

  For the first time since 2001, the United States resumes its observer status at the International Criminal Court.

  IIGG Event: U.S. and International Law

   

  

  Countdown to Copenhagen

  At a CFR event, experts discussed the lack of a coherent U.S. climate change strategy going into Copenhagen.

  Crisis Guide: Climate Change
  

   

  Expert Opinion and Analysis

  Expert Briefs

  China's Role in the "New Era of Engagement"

  Stewart M. Patrick

   

   

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  Troubling Turnover on UN Security Council

  Kara C. McDonald

   

   

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  Why China May Stumble

  Steven Dunaway

   

   

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  Working Papers

  Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery

  Jeffry A. Frieden

  October 2009

   

   

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  The Gloomy Prospects for World Growth

  Steven Dunaway

  September 2009

   

   

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  Op-Eds from CFR Fellows

  Department of Energy Pursuing Sound Strategy but Funding is Vulnerable

  Michael A. Levi and Adam Segal

  October 2009

   

   

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  As We Stand Down, Can They Stand Up?

  Max Boot

  November 16, 2009

   

   

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  The Third Intifada

  Steven A. Cook

  November 16, 2009

   

   

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  Interviews

  The U.S.-Russia Nuclear Thicket

  November 20, 2009

   

   

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  Securing U.S. Energy Supplies

  November 18, 2009

   

   

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  Obama 'Straddling Debate' on Prosecuting 9/11 Prisoners

  November 15, 2009

   

   

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  Resources on Global Governance

  Backgrounders

  The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

  A proposed groundbreaking nuclear deal between the United States and India is raising questions and concern in both countries.

   

   

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  Iran's Ballistic Missile Program

  Despite concerns over Iran's nuclear program, the Obama administration has assessed that Tehran is years from a developing a long-range...

   

   

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  Understanding Myanmar

  Myanmar's people continue to struggle for freedom despite having achieved independence from colonial rule almost six decades ago.

   

   

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  Cooperating for Peace and Security

  The Mission Determines the Coalition

  In this excerpt from Cooperating for Peace and Security, Stewart Patrick examines the United States and multilateral cooperation after September 11, 2001.

  Washington Quarterly

  Prix Fixe and a la Carte

  In this issue of the Washington Quarterly, Stewart Patrick says the United States should avoid false multilateral choices.

  Foreign Affairs Articles

  Reshaping the World Order

  Stephen Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

   

   

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  Losing Controls

  Mitchel B. Wallerstein

   

   

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  IIGG Updates

  Enter your email address and click Go to receive updates from the IIGG program.

  Interactive: Monitor

  Nuclear Proliferation

  

  Global Finance

  

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  IIGG Meetings

  IIGG COSPONSORSHIP

  Building a More Effective United Nations: Opportunities for the Obama Administration

  In April, the IIGG cosponsored a meeting on UN reform at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Watch the video for the event here.

  Transcripts

  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 3: U.S. Options for Copenhagen

  November 10, 2009, Washington D.C.

   

   

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  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 2: Connecting Domestic and International Action

  November 10, 2009, Washington D.C.

   

   

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  Countdown to Copenhagen Symposium: Session 1: Copenhagen in a Global Context

  November 10, 2009, Washington D.C.

   

   

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  Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Illusion or Possibility

  November 4, 2009, New York.

   

   

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  CFR Books and Reports

  Books

  

  The Best Laid Plans

  In his latest book, Stewart Patrick examines the origins of American multilateralism and the dawn of the Cold War.

   

   

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  Restoring the Balance

  In Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Saban Center...

   

   

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  Termites in the Trading System

  In this book, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how preferential trade agreements have recreated the unhappy situation of the protectionist 1930s,...

   

   

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  Regional Monetary Integration

  This book seeks to explain why governments contemplate regional monetary integration and why some country groups are more likely than others...

   

   

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  Reports

  

  Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action

  Council Special Report No. 48

  The United States can ill afford the burden of additional foreign policy challenges, making it imperative that the U.S. government find ways...

   

   

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  The Canadian Oil Sands

  Council Special Report No. 47

  The Canadian oil sands present an important challenge to policymakers: they promise energy security benefits but present climate change...

   

   

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  The National Interest and the Law of the Sea

  Council Special Report No. 46

  Seaborne commerce remains the linchpin of the global economy. And beyond trade, a host of other issues, ranging from climate change and...

   

   

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  Lessons of the Financial Crisis

  Council Special Report No. 45

  In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary,...

   

   

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