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Transatlantic Finance Initiative

Mar 25, 2014

Prepared Remarks: Ensuring US-EU Economic Cooperation: A Conversation with Sharon Bowles, MEP

Sharon Bowles, MEP, gave remarks reflecting on the five years she has spent leading the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee during the turbulence of the eurozone and global financial crises. Her prepared remarks are below.

Defense Industrialist

Mar 25, 2014

Did NATO Rearm Russia?

By James Hasik

Arms sales to Moscow have been more embarrassing than alarming, but it’s time to stop. Now that Ukraine has surrendered Crimea after the most perfunctory fight, attention has turned to what the Russian Army might invade next. Estonia? Molodova? In the latter case, SACEUR worries that they Russians will just drive through Kyiv on the way. Perhaps […]

Ukraine

LatAmSource

Mar 24, 2014

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. 

Trade in Action

Mar 21, 2014

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).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Trade in Action

Mar 21, 2014

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).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Mar 19, 2014

Financial Sector Highlighted in Fifth Cyber Risk Wednesday

The fifth Cyber Risk Wednesday, a monthly series organized by the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, discussed the NIST framework’s impacts on the financial sector, the general risk environment, strengths and challenges, and mitigation methods currently in place. The discussion featured a well-balanced panel of speakers with experts from large financial institutions, small and community banking institutions, and government.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Trade in Action

Mar 17, 2014

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 […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Transatlantic Finance Initiative

Mar 14, 2014

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LatAmSource

Mar 14, 2014

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.”

Defense Industrialist

Mar 12, 2014

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 […]