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State of the World 2021 Conference : Struggle for Democracy
The world is at a crossroads as the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the global economy have combined with increasing polarization and highly charged elections. At the same time, the unrelenting desire of people around the globe to live in freedom offers hope for democracy and human rights.
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"The book tries to show how paradoxical meritocracy is. It is transformed by being used through politics and its dark side towards inequality.
The remedy is to remind the successful that the position of the family or nation where they were born allowed them to be successful. Humility is the antidote to the arrogance of meritocracy".
Michael Sandel's reflection and his book The Tyranny of Merit in conversation with Moisés Naím.
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With well over 870,000 confirmed infections and 40,000 deaths worldwide, COVID-19, the disease caused by the fast-spreading new coronavirus, has caused global havoc.
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Moisés Naím concluded that protests worldwide are just manifestations of the failure of established political parties. But democracies also cannot be just based on NGO's. And the solution to this is clearly not more populism.
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Venezuela has been in crisis for over two years and created one of the largest refugee migrations in the region, displacing 2.3 million people. How can national, regional and global actors help resolve Venezuela’s economic and social crisis?
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Recent attempted transitions to democracy in the Arab world, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere have met severe headwinds. Can today’s leaders draw on lessons from successful experiences of democratization in previous decades to overcome transitional traps and other failures of democracy? Drawing on a new book edited by Sergio Bitar and Abraham Lowenthal, Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), this symposium probed the findings of a set of in-depth interviews with leaders of successful democratic transitions. Special focus was given to two current cases of pressing importance: Myanmar and Venezuela.
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Latin America’s 34 nations are facing the end of three important supercycles that have helped drive economic growth and the alleviation of poverty, according to Moisés Naím, Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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The entangled threat of crime, corruption, and terrorism remain important security challenges in the twenty-first century. In her new book, Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism, Louise Shelley argues that their continued spread can be traced to economic and demographic inequalities, the rise of ethnic and sectarian violence, climate change, the growth of technology, and the past failure of international institutions to respond to these challenges when they first emerged.
Carnegie held a discussion with Louise Shelley. Milan Vaishnev acted as discussant, and Moisés Naím moderated.
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Moisés Naím / Testimony: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Venezuela’s lack of democracy and economic failure can only be solved by Venezuelans. But in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Moisés Naím says Washington can take steps to highlight the grave situation in the country, expand targeted sanctions, and be a powerful supporter of human rights.
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CEOs, politicians, religious leaders and generals can do less with their power today than they could in the past. This is the central thesis of Moises Naim’s new book, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battles and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What it Used to Be, and it was the focal point of his remarks at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on October 8, 2013.
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Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard previewed the upcoming meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia. Brainard also discussed the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Moisés Naím moderated.
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Guest speaker Moisés Naím of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offered advice to graduates in the American University School of International Service.
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As the age of superpowers has given way to that of micro-powers, the nature of power itself has changed. Náim, a columnist and former Foreign Policy editor, looks at power in a variety of contexts, from governments to business to popular movements, and finds that power today has a subversive nature that makes it both harder to use and easier to lose.
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On September 28th, 2012, Dr. Moisés Naím took part in the Georgetown TEDx forum which was later aired on the organizations YouTube channel. Watch his presentation here!
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Senator Mark Warner, an organizer of the Senate’s "Gang of Six" deficit reduction initiative and a prominent voice on deficit reduction, discussed how the United States can reduce its deficit and improve its long-term fiscal outlook. Carnegie’s Moisés Naím moderated.
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Following the G20 summit at Cannes, Treasury Department Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard and Moisés Naím discussed the key developments to come out of the summit and what they mean for the euro and the global economy.
In Cannes, G20 leaders made a subtle but profound shift back to safeguarding the global recovery, said Brainard. G20 members, however, are facing different challenges and have different political constraints, preventing the universal call for stimulus that followed the 2009 London summit. Nevertheless, policymakers are uniformly focused on growth and financial stability.
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One year after 9/11, seventeen Carnegie experts assessed the global significance of the attacks and their aftermath. It was clear then that 9/11 had changed the United States far more than it had the rest of the world. Washington’s new agenda of attacking terrorism around the world and building greater security at home blotted out other issues.
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Within a generation, developing countries will likely account for more than two-thirds of G20 output and nearly 70 percent of global trade. This shift will have major implications for both international relations and global governance.
In their new book, Juggernaut: How Emerging Markets Are Reshaping Globalization, Carnegie’s Uri Dadush and William Shaw explore the broader implications of the rise of developing countries. Carnegie hosted a discussion with Dadush and Shaw, the Brookings Institution’s Kemal Derviş, former head of the United Nations Development Programme, and the Rt. Hon. Mike Moore, the current ambassador and former prime minister of New Zealand and the former director-general of the World Trade Organization. Carnegie’s Moisés Naím moderated.
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