Mia Higgins

CFR Staff

Mia Higgins

General Counsel

Mia Higgins is the first general counsel of the Council. In that role, she oversees the organization's legal and risk management functions. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Foreign Affairs

Published by the Council on Foreign Relations since 1922, just a year after the organization’s founding, Foreign Affairs has long been America’s leading forum for serious discussion of foreign policy and international affairs.

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Hamas Has Reinvented Underground Warfare

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Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?

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How America Can Win the Coming Battery War

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Military Operations

Sea Power: The U.S. Navy and Foreign Policy
The U.S. Navy’s dominance of the world’s oceans has made it an indispensable foreign policy tool and a guarantor of global trade, but a mix of challenges is raising difficult questions about its future.

Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters June 12, 2024

Economics

Global Growth Tracker: World Economies by GDP
This tracker charts the economic growth performance through time of ninety-one countries around the globe.

Article by Benn Steil June 12, 2024 Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

United States

Foreign Policy at the U.S. National Political Conventions
Foreign policy issues regularly come to the fore at the national political conventions, especially during periods of global instability. Sometimes the events are marked by bitter disagreements within the parties.

Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters and Gopal Ratnam June 11, 2024

Top Stories on CFR

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Reverberations From Ukraine
The war in Ukraine marks a new era of instability in Europe. Countering Russia’s efforts will require a stronger, more coordinated NATO.

Report by Andrea Kendall-Taylor June 12, 2024 Center for Preventive Action

China

How the United States Can Effectively Pivot to Asia
After the rise of Chinese power during the 2010s and failed U.S. policies in the Indo-Pacific, the United States should renew the Pivot to Asia and place the region at the center of its grand strategy.*

Expert Brief by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine June 11, 2024 Asia Program

France

How Will the EU Elections Results Change Europe?
Far-right advances in the European Parliament elections have destabilized politics in France, a longstanding pillar of the European Union, and highlighted fault lines in the bloc.

In Brief by Liana Fix June 10, 2024