International Monetary Fund executive board member Arrigo Sadun and AEI economists Desmond Lachman, Philip I. Levy, and John H. Makin will analyze competing national goals and the future of the G-20. AEI's Claude Barfield will moderate.

Multilateralism is not always the right way in crafting foreign policy.

There is no more dangerous ideology than the assumption that dialogue is always healthy or appropriate.

What plausible alternatives exist for multilateralism?

Despite his pledge to engage countries in the hemisphere, President Barack Obama's engagement with Latin America tends to be episodic, and on multilateralism and economic engagement in the region, the United States has lost considerable ground.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.