The following post is modified from my remarks at the Chatham House's Whitehead lecture on transatlantic relations in London last week and at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York this morning My career in financial services spans 30 years and... Full Article at Huffington Post

There's a student at George Washington University who is keeping the pros on their toes. Full Article at Betsy's Page

NEW YORK — Last December, having recently led the creation of a multimedia look at climate change for the Council on Foreign Relations (Crisis Guide; Climate Change), I got an email from a CFR colleague alerting me to a post in a well known climate... Full Article at Global Post

"We need to go more local," McChrystal says. "In Iraq, we went local and built to the center." ...is that there is no nation. Full Article at BrothersJudd Blog

The national unity cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri was granted a record number of confidence votes a day before, as 122 out of 128 lawmakers voted at the Parliament House in Beirut in favor of the cabinet. Full Article at People's Daily Online

John Hulsman is the author of the recently released "To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad." Full Article at Deutsche Welle

Pavel Rahman/Associated Press A Bangladeshi worker at a brick factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The World Bank approved a $62.2 million credit to help Bangladesh to control urban air pollution in May. How much good can this amount of aid do? Full Article at The New York Times

President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech yesterday made reference to the moral authority, under the ethics of the just war, for armed humanitarian intervention in some situations. Full Article at The Volokh Conspiracy

"If you look at countries like India and China...which are highly reliant on coal I really don't see us coming to grips with climate change at a global level without nuclear energy playing a role," said Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief at the... Full Article at Huffington Post

difficult will it be for the likes of Mousavi and Karroubi to sustain their current position," said Ray Takeyh, an Iran expert at the Council on Foreign Relations who has worked for the State Department. Full Article at TwinCities.com

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The Council on Foreign Relations has launched its very first weblog, The Candidates and the World, which aims to track the campaign through the prism of foreign policy, trade, international economics, and national and homeland security issues out on... Full Article at Geo-Graphics Blog | Council on Foreign Relations

Paul Krugman -- oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Paul Krugman, Professor Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Krugman (I say all that just in case anyone thinks that means his opinions shouldn't be challenged) -- recently wrote a New Yawk Times op-ed about... Full Article at Town Hall

The Council on Foreign Relations is always near the top of the Left's list of bogeymen that stand accused of pulling the strings of US foreign policy. It is right up there with the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, right? Wrong. Full Article at Counterpunch

BRUSSELS, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The real task of Haiku Herman, as the currently fashionable nickname goes for the new resident of the European Union Herman Van Rompuy, is to squash talk of the world's new leadership team of the United States and China as the... Full Article at United Press International

The problem may not be any lack of resolve, talent or hard work on the part of either man but the envoy system itself, which Obama embraced early in his administration before it had been particularly well thought out, according to some experts. Full Article at Huffington Post

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - VAO News - "When the economy dips, so does the public's enthusiasm for activity abroad," says James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations Studies. Full Article at Kansas City Infozine

That didn't take long. Full Article at Blue Mass. Group

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. STEPHANOPOULOS: The president spells out his war strategy. OBAMA: After 18, months, our troops will begin to come home. Full Article at CQ Politics