Michael levi is the david m. Rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the council on Foreign Relations. He was previously nonresident science and Technology Fellow at the foreignpolicy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. He is the author of the power surge, Energy Opportunity in the battle for americas future. On Nuclear Terrorism and the future of arms control. He received a bachelor of science with honors from Queens University in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph. D. Is from the university of london. Treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. Im going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. Michael, elizabeth its nice to have both of this evening. I would like to start by setting the stage for us. Why did you r
Its after words, about the limits of partnerships and the u. S. Russian relationships. Then at 10 00 p. M. , nsa spying and edward snowden. We wrap up the programming at 11 20 p. M. With will swift on the marriage of pat and richard nixon, that all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Talking about chinas efforts to secure Natural Resources and Investment Opportunities around the world. And the impact it will have on everybody else. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good evening. Welcome to the World Affairs council, washington, dcs program with the authors, of a fascinating new book by all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. On behalf of the board of directors and the council its my pleasure welcome you here this evening. With us are elizabeth c economy and michael levi. She is currently the vice chair of the economic and sits on the board of the u. S. Center for sustainable development. She wrote, the river runs black, the environmental challenge to chi
By all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. I can heidi hsu on behalf of the board of directors and members of the killed so it is my pleasure to welcome you this evening. Overcast Elizabeth Economy id michael levi. Denied a senior fellow and director of Asian Studies currently the vice chair of the council on the future of china in sets of the border of the board for sustainable development. She runs the river runs flat and is published numerous articles including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. She received her m. D. From stanford and a ph. D. From university of michigan. Dat the senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change for the council of Foreign Relations and previously resident fellow in the Foreign Policy studies at brookings and the director of the federation of American Science as Strategic Security projects. He is the author of the power surge in the battle for americas future on terrorism in the future of a
At a point of pause in the direct negotiations that were going on for the last nine months. And we have made clear and my message to both sides was that the only sustainable solution to this tragic conflict is yet a negotiated twostate solution. That is our view. That is the position of both sides. But they are not yet ready to take the steps, i think, to actualize that. And also we have underscored in the meantime as we manage this moment of pause and as they manage this moment of pause more precisely they ought not to take steps either of them that make the circumstances more tense or more fraught. What has happened the last several weeks is that some of the u. S. Officials involved in those negotiations are now saying that it was the israeli governments expansion of settlements, specifically Prime Minister netanyahu to build 14,000 more Housing Units that sabotaged the peace effort. I think you have heard american Officials Say quite directly and what i have said and what others hav
Her mom graduated from that , and in a normal world maybe she would have gone to that cool. Said, do yout and want to speak up and put a face to this travesty . Kind enough to say yes, will do that. This brings us to where we are now. Break a bit a of context. Boko haram are gentlemen terrorists. Tongueincheek. They say, we dont kill the elderly. We dont kill women. Count. Ans and jews dont they cameis classic. In to kill the pastore, and they made a calculation that the sun should be killed or does he might grow up and become a pastor. This is an example of shifting those it would not kill. What has happened from the Fact Finding Missions was the christian response was they would move the men out and leave the women the hind. Behind. There were many camps who left women behind because boko haram said they dont kill weapon. That changed overnight. Boko haram realized they are going out of the terrorism business. We have to come up with a new plan. We have 300 young women abducted , tak