Governance

WASHINGTON, February 6, 2012—The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted a press briefing to discuss the issues surrounding the Obama Administration’s hosting of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on February 14.

Briefers include:

The CSIS Southeast Asia program is pleased to invite you to participate in a The Singapore Conference @ CSIS on February 8, 2012,  with a select and high level group of experts and senior policy officials at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The conference will bring together several ministers from Singapore’s new cabinet and other Singaporean and U.S.

Sally Healy
Freelance Policy Analyst, Horn and East Africa
 
David W. Throup
Senior Associate, CSIS Africa Program
 
Moderated by
Richard Downie
Fellow and Deputy Director, CSIS Africa Program
 
Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Co-Organized by:

Freeman Chair in China Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
&
Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
The Brookings Institution

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

B-1 Conference Center
CSIS
1800 K. St. NW,
Washington, DC 20006

Algeria responded actively to popular demands for political openness in the last year, and these reforms will come into full effect in 2012, according to H.E. Mourad Medelci, the Algerian minister of foreign affairs. Medelci spoke to a group of about 50 at CSIS on January 13, 2012.

On January 9, 2012, Dr. Mikhail Dmitriev, President of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) in Moscow, gave a presentation on shifts in Russian public opinion and how this might be an indication of socio-economic change that may lead to meaningful political transformation. Dr.

Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz is UN Assistant Secretary General and Director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.  He is well-known as Chile's ambassador to the Organization of American States as well as its ambassador to the United Nations.  He also served as Deputy Foreign Minister for President Ricard

CSIS Turkey Project hosted a senior delegation from the Republican People's Party (RPP) to discuss Turkish economy, foreign policy and politics.