Category: Content Series

Schechter on the significance of Adolfo Suárez’s political legacy

Watch Latin Center’s Director Peter Schechter discuss the life and legagy of Adolfo Suárez, the first democratically elected prime minister of Spain. 

What We’re Reading: March 20

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

What We’re Reading: March 18

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Financial Services Regulation: a US Perspective

By Chris Brummer

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray fellow with the Council’s Global Business; Economics Program, will testify in front of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. As an expert on international financial regulation, Chris will provide his thoughts on the extent to which financial services should be included in […]

Transatlantic Finance Initiative

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The Second Machine Age and Economic Development

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

Upon finishing The Second Machine Age, written by MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, it feels like innovation is swiftly overtaking the world — ready or not. As Wired’s Kevin Kelly puts it, “technology is overturning the world’s economies, and [this] is the best explanation of this revolution yet written.”

Is the FD-2000 an Albatross or a Raptor-killer?

By James Hasik

How Chinese missile marketing poses three very different theses about Chinese strategy The Hurriyet Daily News reported yesterday that enthusiasm has begun to wane amongst local subcontractors in CPMIEC’s proposed sale of FD-2000 anti-aircraft missile batteries to Turkey. CPMIEC has been blacklisted by the US government under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act, and Turkish firms […]

Mezran on Dismissal of Libyan Prime Minister

By Karim Mezran

Christian Science Monitor quotes Rafik Hariri Center Senior Fellow Karim Mezran about the dismissal of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan:

Productivity before platforms

By August Cole

For the Pentagon, reducing the cost of big systems will be only half the battle. In technology, as in air-to-air combat, speed can be everything. Yet even as fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 push the aeronautical envelope, America’s military is struggling to keep up with a disorienting worldwide acceleration of technological development that it […]