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The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program — CFR's "think tank" — is composed of about fifty adjunct and full-time scholars and practitioners (called "fellows") as well as ten in-resident recipients of year-long fellowships who cover the major regions and significant issues shaping today's international agenda. These scholars contribute to the foreign policy debate by writing books, reports, articles, and op-eds on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
The program focuses on the most significant foreign policy issues facing the United States and the international community today, including conflict in the Middle East, rising powers in Asia, and globalization. The fellows' work covers all major geographical regions of the world — Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Polar regions — as well as the following program areas: energy security and climate change, global health, international institutions and global governance, national security and defense, science and technology, and U.S. foreign policy. In addition, the Studies Program hosts three research centers: The Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics, the Center for Preventive Action, and the Center for Universal Education.
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Paul Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Stewart Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Julia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies
Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Explore the international oceans regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
This report explores how international legal rules regarding military force might evolve to better meet the challenges of mass atrocities.
The authors of this CSR explain why the United States needs to place greater emphasis on preventive action and how current organizational arrangements can be changed to meet that need.
This report addresses pan-Asian and trans-Pacific architectures and guidelines for how the United States can revise its approach in order to consolidate and improve the efficacy of these Asian institutions.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
Through compelling analysis and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, Charles A. Kupchan explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity, and exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace.
With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine Israel's adversity-driven culture to offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
Vali Nasr reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
Complete list of CFR Books
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
jlindsay@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org