The Annual Chatham House Conference on Global Risk and Corporate Strategy 2008

The New Politics of the Global Economy: A world without rules?

A major international two-day conference

Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 March 2008 Chatham House,London

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

HE Dr Supachai Panitchpadki Secretary General United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Dr Jamie P Shea Director,Policy Planning Office of the Secretary General North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Professor Anatol Lieven Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies King’s College,London

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4 IRAN AND THE US: With High Confidence Rosemary Hollis

7 PAKISTAN: Anyone For A Deal? GarethPrice

10 HILLARY CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY: Hillary’s World John Dumbrell

13 MAINTAINING AMERICAN PRIMACY: After Bush Robert Singh

16 BOOK REVIEW:To See Ourselves as Others... Ian Williams

17 FINANCIAL SHOCKS:Greed, Fear, Risk JohnGriffith-Jones

21 AFRICA-EUROPEAN UNION TRADE:Seismic Rupture Barbara Stocking

23 SOMALIA ONE YEAR ON:Broken City Sally Healy

26HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE GOLBAL AGE: When Something Must Be Done Anne Wittman

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