Following a keynote address by Representative Donald A. Manzullo, panelists examined the Obama administration's plan to reshape the U.S. export-control system.

Vigilante non-governmental organisations have become the de facto regulators of the flow of finance to the developing world.

Obama's presidency is gravely wounding America and its friends. His response to virtually every significant threat or crisis has either complicated or worsened the problem, or, at best, left it essentially no closer to resolution.

There is significant disagreement about the effectiveness of the Obama administration's proposed export control reforms, which casts doubt on whether substantive reform can be achieved in the proposed one-year time frame.

The EU needs a system of corporate governance that sets standards to maintain confidence in the system, but which nonetheless respects national traditions.

A new business model for foreign aid is the main hope--perhaps the only hope--for fixing a broken system.

The U.S.-Japanese relationship has never been better, nor havethe prospects for the relationshipever been much brighter.