Model Diplomacy
World101
Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
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.
Mike Segar/Reuters
Experts say income and wealth inequality is one of the defining challenges of this century. The COVID-19 pandemic has further deepened these divisions.
The rich have gotten richer as workers’ wages have stagnated, social mobility has declined, and regional economic divisions have sharpened. Who wouldn’t be angry? In this second session in The Threats to American Democracy Roundtable Series, two of the world’s leading authorities on the subject discuss.
The Threats to American Democracy Roundtable Series explores various threats to American democracy.
This meeting is part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy.
France
Even if President Emmanuel Macron is able to fend off the challenge from his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, he could struggle to form an effective government.
Global Finance
For years, large corporations have exploited international tax laws to pay less taxes. But last year, 137 countries backed a potential solution: a 15 percent corporate tax applied regardless of a company’s location. The reform could raise global tax revenues by more than $150 billion a year, but as advocates garner political support, there are significant roadblocks.
A group of more than one hundred countries has agreed to a historic rewrite of global tax rules. Here’s what to know.
Immigration and Migration
Refugees and Displaced Persons
The United States has long been a safe haven for refugees from around the world. President Biden aims to expand the country’s resettlement program after the Trump administration made sharp cuts.
Comprehensive immigration reform has eluded Congress for years, moving controversial policy decisions into the executive and judicial branches of government.
Afghanistan
With al-Qaeda and the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Khorasan growing in strength since the U.S. withdrawal, Seth Jones lays out a strategy for the United States to prevent a renewed terrorist threat from emerging in Afghanistan.
The Taliban, heavily influenced by the Haqqanis, will continue using Afghan girls’ education as a bargaining chip on matters such as international recognition, financial sanctions, and aid.
The Taliban have returned to power in Afghanistan twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops, sparking concerns that they will impose harsh rule, neglect to provide basic services, and abuse human rights.
United Nations
The war in Ukraine marks the biggest test for the United Nations in three decades, but its failure is not inevitable, nor is it destined for irrelevance.
Many UN agencies, programs, and missions receive crucial funding from the United States. The Trump administration sharply reduced funding to some UN agencies, but President Biden has largely reversed those cuts.
Events
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong discusses Singapore's perspective on current geopolitical developments, the United States engagement of the Asia-Pacific, and U.S.-China relations.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra discusses the agency’s global footprint, including how COVID-19 exposed systemic disparities in healthcare at home and abroad, plans to prepare for future pandemics, and efforts to restore global partnerships.
A democracy has never succeeded in being both diverse and equal. Yet, treating members of many different ethnic or religious groups fairly is central to the democratic project in countries around the world. It is, Yascha Mounk argues, the greatest experiment of our time.
In The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, Mounk examines how diverse societies have long suffered from the ills of domination, fragmentation, or structured anarchy and shows that the past can offer crucial insights for how to do better in the future.
The CFR Fellows’ Book Launch series highlights new books by CFR fellows.
This meeting is part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy.
James Bullard of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis discusses interest rates, inflation, and the challenges facing U.S. economic growth.
The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.
Expert Spotlight
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Catherine Powell
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Jennifer Nuzzo
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Health Public Health Threats and Pandemics Health Policy and Initiatives
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
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
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Trade Immigration and Migration Economics
@edwardalden
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Stewart M. Patrick
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Global Governance Diplomacy and International Institutions International Organizations
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Matthias Matthijs
Senior Fellow for Europe
Europe European Union NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Richard K. Betts
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Bruce Hoffman
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Wars and Conflict Intelligence
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Gideon Rose
Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Wars and Conflict Middle East and North Africa Southeast Asia
Laura Taylor-Kale
Fellow for Innovation and Economic Competitiveness
Jendayi E. Frazer
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Sub-Saharan Africa U.S. Foreign Policy Politics and Government
Adam Segal
Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Explainers
Timeline: U.S.-Mexico Relations
The neighbors have developed rich diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties but at times clashed over borders, migration, trade, and an escalating drug war.
Featured Publications
Yascha Mounk offers a brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of modern time—how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional.
Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many important events—including the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—significantly revising our understanding of the United States’ and Iran’s complex and difficult history.
China's ambitions for global health leadership are faltering as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. The country's mixed record of addressing the virus offers opportunities for U.S. global health leadership, writes Yanzhong Huang.