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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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As the Israeli military campaign intensifies, CFR experts discuss the latest developments in the war and its implications for the Gaza Strip and broader Middle East.
Matthew Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at CFR and the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the laws of warfare and how they apply to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Trade
This month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting is unlikely to alter the U.S. approach to regional economic integration and trade.
Trade between the world’s two biggest economies has ballooned in recent decades, bringing significant benefits but also perils that have led to calls to rethink the relationship.
Many economies in the Americas already have bilateral free trade agreements with Washington, offering a stronger base for nearshoring, deeper integration and higher standards.
Trade
The Joe Biden administration needs to decide if friendshoring is a paradigm shift or old wine in new bottles.
The World Trade Organization needs an updated toolbox in the face of rising industrial policies across the globe.
Biden’s economic plans risk alienating the Global South when the United States needs them most.
Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East has suffered from protracted instability in recent decades, and climate-related disasters compound existing suffering. Marwa Daoudy argues that the United States and its partners should center mitigation efforts in assistance to the region.
Countries will collectively need to spend trillions of dollars to reach their decarbonization goals and protect the most vulnerable nations from climate disasters, but experts say current funding levels fall far short of what’s required to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
Water scarcity threatens the health and development of communities around the globe. Climate change is intensifying the problem, pushing governments to find more innovative, collaborative ways to address water stress.
Technology and Innovation
Artificial intelligence, and its risks and benefits, has rapidly entered the popular consciousness in the past year. Kat Duffy and Dr. Rumman Chowdhury discuss how society can mitigate problems and ensure AI is an asset.
CFR mourns the passing of Peter Tarnoff, its former president who raised CFR’s public profile and had a distinguished diplomatic career.
Events
As the Israeli military campaign intensifies, CFR experts discuss the latest developments in the war and its implications for the Gaza Strip and broader Middle East.
Current ambassadors of Australia, France, and Singapore to the United States, who all have worked in or with Beijing in previous positions, discuss the global view on the U.S.-China relationship, and how it affects the rest of the world.
The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program is supported by a generous gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
Panelists discuss how the recent attacks by Hamas and ongoing conflict between the group and Israel continue to affect security in the Middle East and influence regional dynamics, as well as the future of U.S. policy towards the region.
This discussion has been added to the agenda for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Term Member Conference.
Expert Spotlight
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Inu Manak
Fellow for Trade Policy
Trade Diplomacy and International Institutions Treaties and Agreements
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Richard Haass
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Steven A. Cook
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Gideon Rose
Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Wars and Conflict Middle East and North Africa Southeast Asia
Bruce Hoffman
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Wars and Conflict Intelligence
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Catherine Powell
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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