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The cascading financial crisis dominated the final months of the U.S. presidential campaign but a range of national security and other foreign policy matters are also crowding the inbox of the next president. The challenges range from settling the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to nuclear containment of Iran to following through on pledges to wean the United States off of dependency on foreign oil sources. The following is a catalog of materials from CFR.org and Foreign Affairs on critical issues which will confront the next president and the new administration.
The Next President's Foreign Policy Outlook
- Backgrounder: John McCain's Foreign Policy Advisers
- Backgrounder: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Advisers
- Essential Document: Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy
- Richard N. Haass: The World that Awaits
- James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet: Kennan had a Vision. Things Aren't So Clear Now
- Richard N. Haass: Candidates of Like Minds
- Leslie H. Gelb: How the American President Changes the World
- Foreign Affairs: John McCain: An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom
- Foreign Affairs: Barack Obama: Renewing American Leadership
- Foreign Affairs: Richard C. Holbrooke: The Next President
Financial Crisis
- Meeting: Campaign Advisers Debate Economic Policy
- CFR Forum: Financial Turmoil and U.S. Power
- Sebastian Mallaby: A 21st Century Bretton Woods
- Sebastian Mallaby: McCain's Convenient Untruth
- Amity Shlaes: McCain's Tax Plan Would Block a Democrat Katrina
- Council Special Report: Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power
- Daily Analysis: Finance and Foreign Policy
Pakistan/Afghanistan
- Council Special Report: Securing Pakistan's Tribal Belt
- Foreign Affairs: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Interview: Husain Haqqani: 'Fighting Terrorism is Pakistan's Own War'
- Interview: Bruce Riedel: U.S. Needs to Tread Carefully in Pakistan
- Interactive: U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Energy and Climate Change
- Crisis Guide: Climate Change
- Independent Task Force: Confronting Climate Change
- Backgrounder: Challenges for Nuclear Power Expansion
- Backgrounder: Economic Challenges for Climate Change Policy
- Online Debate: Will More Drilling Increase U.S. Energy Security?
- Daily Analysis: Anticipating the Next Green President
Iraq
- Foreign Affairs: How to Leave a Stable Iraq
- Michael J. Gerson: Casualty of the Surge
- Interview: Minister Says Iraq Has No Budget Surplus
- Interview: Iraq's Oil-Dependent Budget
- Conference Call: How to Leave a Stable Iraq
- Meeting: A Discussion of Iraqi Futures
- Online Debate: Max Boot and Steven Simon: Has the Surge Put Iraq on the Path to Success?
- Backgrounder: The Role of the 'Sons of Iraq' in Improving Security
Iran
- Vali R. Nasr: Obama is Right About Talking to Iran
- Michael J. Gerson: The President who will Deal with Iran
- Backgrounder: Negotiating with Hostile States
- Backgrounder: Iran's Nuclear Program
- CFR Forum: Iran's Nuclear Program
- Meeting: The Nuclear Dimension
Immigration
- Edward Alden on U.S. Immigration Clampdown Post-9/11
- Edward Alden: The Great Wall of the United States
- Podcast: Hispanic Voters Favor Moderate Approach to Immigration Reform
- Podcast: Shannon O'Neil: The Next President and Latin America
Additional Resources
- Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Meeting: The U.S. Role in the World
- Meeting: Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Next Administration
- Meeting: The Greater Middle East
- Meeting: Democracy and Role of U.S.
- Foreign Affairs: The Logic of Zero
- Peter Beinart: Is He American Enough?
- Max Boot: True Believer: TR, McCain and Conservatism
- Michael J. Gerson: Ambushed by History
- Meeting: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
