Sentences with phrase «foreign policy council»

Until the «United States and other associates» find a credible political ally and viable alternative to President Bashar al - Assad inside Syria, the balance of power within the country will not change, says Stephen Blank of the American Foreign Policy Council.

Not exact matches

Edward Alden, a reliable observer of trade policy and politics at the Council on Foreign Relations, noted that it's unusual for the commerce secretary to comment so forcefully on a determination that could technically be reversed.

And he hasn't shied away from high - profile events - last May (above), for example, he introduced Australian prime minister John Howard to members of the then Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, who had come to the Peninsula Hotel to hear Howard give a foreign policy aForeign Relations, who had come to the Peninsula Hotel to hear Howard give a foreign policy aforeign policy address.

To get a better sense of the dynamics at play in this relationship, I spoke with Ely Ratner, an expert on US - China relations and East Asia policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.

The Council, co-chaired by Benjamin Dachis, Associate Director, Research at the C.D. Howe Institute and Adam Fanaki, Partner, Competition and Foreign Investment Review and Litigation at Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP provides analysis of emerging competition policy issues.

«It could bring some control to the Wild West of the third parties operating on these platforms,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.

He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

Adam Segal, who researches China's internet policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, compares the conference as an ideological counterpart to ones like the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS), an annual gathering that draws policymakers worldwide to discuss internet governance within the framework of Western - style democracy.

«People tend to confuse what the government can do with what these individual companies can do,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.

The United Nations Council on Trade and Development's recent report on foreign direct investment trends and policies shows that global investment inflows are slowing down.

Thus, the policy of the World Council of Churches is to try to help the churches in developing countries to acquire their own experts as soon as possible and become independent of foreign experts.

He is an associate editor at Religion Dispatches, a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.

The Chicago City Council has been known to engage in mission creep from time to time, such as when it has tried to weigh in on U.S. foreign policy.

Finally, examining Egypt's foreign policy, the article emphasises the rupture of the 1970s, from pan-Arabism under Nasser to the so - called «Egypt - first» policy of Sadat, preserved by Mubarak and the ruling council of today:

The Commission, or the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy where the agreement envisaged relates exclusively or principally to the common foreign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatinForeign Affairs and Security Policy where the agreement envisaged relates exclusively or principally to the common foreign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatingPolicy where the agreement envisaged relates exclusively or principally to the common foreign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatinforeign and security policy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiatingpolicy, shall submit recommendations to the Council, which shall adopt a decision authorising the opening of negotiations and, depending on the subject of the agreement envisaged, nominating the Union negotiator or the head of the Union's negotiating team.

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

Speaking to journalists in Sana, the capital of Yemen, Federation Council Speaker Sergey Mironov said the new direction of Russia's foreign and defense policies and an increase in its naval missions would be taken into consideration when making a decision on the request.

Also at 1 p.m., Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy will be in conversation on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, 58 E 68th St., Manforeign policy in the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, 58 E 68th St., ManForeign Relations, 58 E 68th St., Manhattan.

He recounts a proactive foreign policy based on membership of the UN Security Council, possession of a nuclear deterrent and a willingness to deploy military force globally — part of a continuity in our national history.

At 1 p.m., Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer discusses recent developments in the U.S. economy and the Fed's monetary policy in New York as part of the Council on Foreign Relations C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, 58 E 68th St., Manhattan.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

He was also formerly Director General of Political and Military Affairs of the EU's Council of Ministers, and former chief foreign policy adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Lisbon also combined the posts of European Commissioner for External Relations with the Council's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

One immediate reform is the establishment of a National Security Council to bring together the main figures in the foreign policy, defence and security fields, rather like the American one, which met for the first time on Wednesday evening.

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Besides his congressional fellowship, he has been an adviser to Congress and President Bill Clinton on nuclear arms control and treaty verification and a reviewer for the Council on Foreign Affairs to improve how scientific information is used to formulate international policy.

Funding for icebreakers has «fallen between bureaucratic cracks» in past years, says public policy expert Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a member of the Arctic Task Force at the Council on Foreign Relations.

There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent of damage by an accumulation of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set of policies, will succeed in reducing emissions.

«One of our first tasks is to contact the European Parliament and other policy - making organizations to define a list of potential projects,» says Lindberg, the foreign secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which hosted a meeting on 10 June in Stockholm to launch the council.

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Last week, I moderated a discussion of possible paths on energy and climate policy involving Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Romm of the Climateprogress blog and the Center for American Progress.

My views are close to those of Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations, who's been providing analysis of the climate, security and economic issues since 2009 and who leans toward Obama approving the pipeline while pursuing energy and climate policies that would, in the end, render it insignificant and uneconomical.

Since then, as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he's dived in deep on climate and energy policy, and I've found him consistently able to cut through the confounding layers of the «super wicked» world of climate diplomacy (or the lack of it).

(I'm moderating a discussion of climate policy between Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Romm, the Climateprogress blogger, and I gave an opening talk on communicating what I see as the story of our time — the human transition through a kind of species - scale, puberty - style growth spurt to whatever comes next.)

This morning, Michael Levi, who analyzes energy and the environment for the Council on Foreign Relations, answered my question about the limits of presidential influence in a way that says Obama got it right by insisting that cutting demand through policies aimed at energy efficiency and the next generation of energy technologies had to be part of a long - term American energy (and oil) agenda.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.

Ms. Conley is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arctic and is frequently featured as a foreign policy analyst on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and PBS.

Michael Levi, author of a Council on Foreign Relations study of the Canadian oil sands, told the Washington Post that, with the decision, «the Obama administration made clear that it's not going to go about its climate policy in a crude, blunt way».

* Madison Freeman is the research associate for energy and U.S. foreign policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership Insforeign policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership InsForeign Relations (CFR) and a fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.

Consider his recent Guardian column defending his «hockey stick» from the bad case of brewer's droop it's acquired over the last 15 years of non-warming: Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish professor named (unlike Mann) by Foreign Policy as one of the «Top 100 Global Thinkers», is dismissed as «career fossil fuel industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg»; Judith Curry, a member of the National Research Council's climate research committee, winner of awards from the American Meteorological Society, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, is billed by Dr Mann as «serial climate disinformer Judith Curry...»

-LSB-...] Revkin's piece refers to the affirming work of two other leading climate policy analysts, Andrew Leach at the University of Alberta and Michael Levi at the Council of Foreign Relations.

If I were to quote influential US figures and bodies (like the Council on Foreign Relations) then the aims of US foregin policies over the past 60 years would be laid bare.

Socio (s): CBD, IAEA, UNCCD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNECLAC, UNHCR, UNU, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aquafed, Conservation International, Global Water Partnership, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, International Water Association, University of Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Council

That being said, the Treaties clearly make a distinction between situations requiring a unanimous vote by the European Council (e.g. guidelines in the Common Foreign and Security Policy field) and areas where decisions are to be taken by consensus (e.g. guidelines in the area of Freedom, Justice and Security)

For the purposes of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the jurisdiction of the Court is limited in the Treaties to whether Art. 40 TEU has been respected and to the review of legality of certain decisions taken based on Art. 275 (2) TFEU, the latter concerning essentially legal actions brought against the legality of decisions on restrictive measures against natural and legal persons taken by the Council.

The Presidency shall be assisted by the Secretary - General of the Council who shall exercise the function of High Representative for the common foreign and security policy.

Where it is provided, in a common position or in a joint action adopted according to the provisions of the Treaty on European Union relating to the common foreign and security policy, for an action by the Community to interrupt or to reduce, in part or completely, economic relations with one or more third countries, the Council shall take the necessary urgent measures.

The European Council shall define the principles of and general guidelines for the common foreign and security policy, including for matters with defence implications.

Without prejudice to the powers of the Presidency and of the Commission, the Secretary - General of the Council, High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, shall in particular ensure that the European Parliament and all members of the Council are kept fully informed of the implementation of enhanced cooperation in the field of the common foreign and security policy.

The Council may request the Commission to submit to it any appropriate proposals relating to the common foreign and security policy to ensure the implementation of a joint action.