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Global Economic Crisis Series

In the globalized world of the 21st century, the lines between a nation's economy, its national security and overall international security are entirely permeable, as the current global economic crisis vividly illustrates.  As the fallout from the economic crisis continues to ripple around the world, CNP has launched a new study series examining current and emerging economic issues in regions with a particularly direct impact on both America's security and global security broadly.

The inaugural events in the Center's "Global Economic Crisis" Series focus on Mexico and Pakistan.  Instability in the former threatens to cross the border with a major potential impact on the US economy; instability in the latter has profound links to America's national security as the US continues to battle the spread of Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in the region, with a stable and thriving Pakistani state being central to that mission.    Following these events, CNP will examine additional regions of exceptional global importance as well as issues impacting the global economy overall.

Tom Gjelten

Guest hosting the series for CNP will be National Public Radio's Tom Gjelten, who covers a wide array of economic, intelligence and security issues for NPR. His regional expertise includes broad experience in Latin America, the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as military and diplomatic issues, having covered both the State Department and the Pentagon for NPR. His numerous awards include multiple Overseas Press Club Awards, a George Polk Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.  He also received an Alred I. Dupont-Columbia University Silver Baton and a George Foster Peabody Award as part of NPR teams that covered the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq, respectively.  To read more about Gjelten, click here.

• Instability in Pakistan: Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis
  Jun 10, 2009
  
  
  The Center for National Policy hosted Ambassador Teresita Schaffer and Stephen Cohen for a discussion that highlighted their opinions on the global economic crisis and its effects on stability in Pakistan.

• The Global Economic Crisis and Mexico: Forecast for the Future
  May 28, 2009
  
  
  The Center for National Policy hosted Ambassador James Jones, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz and guest moderator Tom Gjelten for a discussion concerning their opinions on the global economic crisis and its effects on stability in Mexico.