Carnegie Moscow Center
Can China sustain its hybrid system, combining authoritarian governance and capitalist economics, or will it eventually have to democratize to continue its impressive economic growth?
On October 5, 2006, the Carnegie Endowment hosted a book launch for Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar to celebrate the release of his most recent book, Mao's Last Revolution, which he co-authored with Michael Schoenhals. MacFarquhar spoke about the contents of his book as well as the contribution it makes to the understanding of the Cultural Revolution.
The Lebanon war was a war without winners. Trends indicate that if anything, the changes that are taking place are going in the wrong direction. This was a conflict where none of the participants achieved their objectives. The Carnegie Endowment, in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, hosted Marina Ottoway, Volker Perthes, and Amr Hamzawy to discuss implications of the Lebanon War.
Despite the popular narrative, US-Russian relations are generally good. They have undergone and are undergoing dramatic changes, but the relationship is maturing from an overly romantic partnership to a more pragmatic one. Most people speak of this change to a more “selective partnership” as a tragedy, but in reality, it is a natural evolution.
Member and Secretary of the Parliament of Lebanon, Mr. Jawad Boulos, spoke at a roundtable hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and moderated by Julia Choucair, September 26, 2006.
Alexei Arbatov, Vladimir Dvorkin discussed their new book on the nuclear relations of Russia and the US.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Discussants comment on the cause of the collapse of the Doha Round, the prospects for continued negotiations, the impact of the impasse on the WTO and policy recommendations that could lead to a successful conclusion of the Round.
On September 6, 2006, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace China Program hosted a talk with Matthew Szymanski, Chief of Staff, House Small Business Committee and U.S.-China Interparliamentary Exchange, entitled “Engaging the Chinese Legislature: Report from the Field.” Carnegie’s Minxin Pei moderated the discussion. A summary of the event follows.