Carnegie Endowment Events

Fresh from a trip to Yangon and Naypyidaw, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific gives an update on policy toward Myanmar as the country gears up for historic elections. Carnegie’s Vikram Nehru moderates.

Defense and Security Partnership for a Stable Asia by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

July 18, 2005: Looking Backward, Looking Forward by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Transforming Economic Cooperation: The Open Frontier by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

India stands at a new juncture in its nuclear development. New Delhi is unveiling ballistic missiles of ever-greater range, while its nuclear-armed submarine fleet is finally taking operational form with the launch of the Arihant. Despite these developments, India’s nuclear doctrine has not been officially updated since 2003. What is the future direction of India’s doctrine?

Long neglected by outside powers, the Sahel region stands at the strategic nexus of a number of growing challenges facing the African continent, Europe, and the wider Middle East.

Long neglected by outside powers, the Sahel region stands at the strategic nexus of a number of growing challenges facing the African continent, Europe, and the wider Middle East.

Long neglected by outside powers, the Sahel region stands at the strategic nexus of a number of growing challenges facing the African continent, Europe, and the wider Middle East.

Crimean Tatars have had an antagonistic relationship with Moscow since Stalin’s forcible removal of more than 200,000 of their people from the Crimea in 1944. They have also suffered continuous repression since the Russian annexation of the peninsula last year.

Since launching the Russian Roulette series in March 2014, VICE News reporter Simon Ostrovsky has filmed and released over 100 video dispatches, creating a truly singular body of combat reportage about the Russian annexation of Crimea and the bloody war in eastern Ukraine.

China’s emergence as a major power in the increasingly vital Asia-Pacific region presents a major, long-term strategic challenge to the United States and its allies. Beijing’s growing military, economic, and political influence across the region, along with its avowed preference for a multi-polar security environment free from conventional alliances, call into question the future of the U.S.-led, post-WWII regional order centered on American maritime predominance and allied support. How is Beijing challenging this order, and to what extent? How should Washington and its allies respond? Michael D. Swaine and Ashley J. Tellis have recently presented very different assessments—Swaine argues for a transition to a stable balance of power, while Tellis calls for an enhanced effort to sustain U.S. predominance. Join them for for a lively discussion of this vital issue. The University of Pennsylvania’s Avery Goldstein will moderate.

Confronted by the 2008 global financial crisis, China unleashed an unprecedented economic stimulus package that included rapid growth in credit from the state banking system to enterprises and local governments. No other developing country has amassed as much debt as quickly. And in other countries, large increases in debt have usually been followed by sharp growth slowdowns, and many ended in crisis. Is China’s debt bomb likely to explode? Is its decelerated growth rate still too rapid? Is there a cure for China’s debt addiction? Ruchir Sharma will answer these questions. Carnegie’s Yukon Huang will comment, and Vikram Nehru will moderate.

India needs to generate one million jobs per month for the next 20 years to absorb its burgeoning working-age population. India’s manufacturing sector, which is relatively underdeveloped, will have to absorb a significant part of this workforce.

Over the last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s China policy has revealed the continuation of India’s asymmetric strategies--seeking to build multiple alignments while remaining grounded in strategic autonomy.

Chinese thinking on nuclear weapons issues can be difficult to discern. What are Chinese views on the role of nuclear weapons?

In a series of bold steps that could open a new avenue of U.S.-Japan security cooperation, Japan’s government is overhauling the way it develops, procures, and exports defense equipment and technology. This effort coincides with a recent U.S. initiative to address concerns that America’s qualitative advantage in defense technology is eroding. How Japan’s entry into the global arms market will impact the security situation in East Asia depends on how Tokyo implements its new policies, as well as the allies’ ability to capitalize on this opportunity to cooperate. Carnegie’s James L. Schoff has closely followed Japan’s new defense equipment policies and convened a study group of representatives from the private and public sectors to review the first year of their implementation. At this event, Schoff explains his findings and moderate a discussion on the potential impact of this new frontier of alliance cooperation.

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, and the United States and China are the world’s largest oil importers, yet Venezuela’s relations with Beijing and Washington couldn’t be more different. China has built a massive state-to-state, loans-for-oil relationship with Venezuela, while U.S. oil imports from the country continue to decline as diplomatic ties further fray. All of this is taking place against a background of rising Chinese influence in Latin America and renewed U.S. diplomatic and energy initiatives with Cuba and throughout the region.

Did corruption undermine the international mission in Afghanistan? Increasing evidence says it did. Please join us for the launch of a new report from Transparency International’s Defense and Security Program, Corruption: Lessons From the International Mission in Afghanistan. The report provides a rigorous analysis of the damage that corruption—and turning a blind eye to it—did to the Afghanistan mission, based on interviews with seventy-five Afghans and internationals who were deeply involved in the mission. The report also offers a policy framework for countering this threat in future security assistance and stabilization operations. Join Carnegie for a conversation with Mark Pyman, author of the report. Carnegie’s Sarah Chayes moderated.

Myanmar’s voters will go to the polls this fall in what could be the most important elections in the country’s history. These elections will choose representatives for the national parliament’s upper and lower houses as well as assemblies in Myanmar’s fourteen regions and states. Subsequently, an electoral college of parliamentarians, including representatives from the armed forces, will choose the country’s next president. Will the elections be free and fair? Which forces will influence the build-up to the elections? What are the elections’ likely outcomes? These questions are explored in a conversation with Thura Shwe Mann, speaker of Myanmar’s lower house of parliament and possible presidential candidate. Carnegie’s Vikram Nehru moderates.

Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth (full audio) by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace