Expert: Increased Trade Friction with U.S. Among Challenges Facing New Leaders in China
Bucknell University
More than 10 years after what’s been called the greatest “wake-up call” in American history, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold comes to Arizona State University to ask, “Are we focused on solving the international problems that threaten America?”
U.S. reactions to tensions in the Middle East reflect an age-old dichotomy in American foreign policy – pragmatism versus morality, says military historian Dr. John C. McManus.
Population stories to watch from the Wilson Center.
Air pollution, climate change, food additives, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and electronic product hazards all pose global consumer and environmental risks, but the regulatory controls to manage them vary by country and by region. In recent decades, Europe has taken the lead over the U.S. in comprehensively managing such risks, according to a new book by UC Berkeley Professor David Vogel. In "The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States" (Princeton University Press 2012), Vogel argues that there has been an overall shift towards greater regulation to manage risk in Europe than in the United States in the last five decades.
American University’s EU and business experts Matthias Matthijs, Stephen Silvia, and Robert Sicina are available to discuss the current state of the Eurozone economy, risks associated with plans to rescue the EU economy, the impact of the three events coming up later this month, and the impact the euro crisis is having on the U.S.
What is the future of NATO? Can the Europeans or the Americans continue to fund NATO capabilities? Will the Alliance commitment to Afghanistan operations decline as European nations withdraw? Experts from American University are available to discuss the isues.
President Barack Obama recently announced the establishment of an Atrocities Prevention Board as part of his comprehensive strategy to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. “For the first time, the National Intelligence Council will prepare an estimate on the global risk of mass atrocities and genocide,” says Leila Nadya Sadat, JD, international law expert and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. “By sensitizing the diplomatic and intelligence communities to atrocities risk and systematizing responses to potential crises, the policies of the Atrocities Prevention Board could significantly change in U.S. foreign policy,” she says.
Ron Mize, assistant professor of Latino Studies at Cornell University, and co-author of “Consuming Mexican Labor and Latino Immigrants in the United States,” comments on this week’s events in Monterrey, Mexico that claimed 49 lives in the country’s ongoing drug war.
If international lenders refuse to renegotiate substantial reductions in Greek public debt, chances are that whatever government emerges in Greece in the next few weeks will run out of cash by the end of June, says an economist at Washington University in St. Louis.