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So i welcome you this morning, thank you all for coming, my name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center. Which is sponsoring this briefing. It is on the geo politics of middle east oil, Historical Perspectives on the current crisis. I want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. Which has booked t
Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policy, but provide Historical Context to help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. Thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the Mellon Foundation which makes this series possible. I also want to thank Rachel Wheatley in the back of the room who is our assistant director and helped organize this. I want think the i want to think the office of gerry connolly, and i want to alert you to the fact that you will have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions, they will get formal remarks in the first hour, and the second half hour will be devoted to q and a. We will go from there. Thank you offer coming. This the rest of it is in the flyer. I worked briefly with the Congressional Research service. A little longer with the department of energy.
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I know im adrian forgive this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business i think of this week a special program for you from the doha forum here in castro well discuss the future of investments in the markets since the 1990 s. Globalization has given the impression that a voting markets were and could couldnt with developed nations the brics and next 11 became the latest investment craze hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty and millions more climb the social escalator into the middle class pockets something has gone wrong the end of the commodity supercycle and easy money came along before populism and the threat to globalization but it could be argued that most emerging Market Growth has been attributable to china and india. So lets dissect what countries really want from globalization and more importantly Foreign Direct Investment our panel here at the heart forum is at the cutting edge of policy making joining me and im sure gets out as execu