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Report: The Reshaping of the US-India Partnership
India has been skeptical of the U.S.-led liberal international order since its independence. Now, the United States also seems keen to abandon the order it once championed. This transition period poses a host of challenges—and a few opportunities for collaboration—for the world’s two largest democracies.
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Russia’s attacks on cultural heritage in occupied Ukraine are neither accidental nor merely symbolic, experts say. They are an attempt to rewrite history, erase Ukraine’s identity, and make annexation permanent.
By Mariel Ferragamo
An unprecedented emigration wave has emptied Cuba of up to a quarter of its population since 2020. The demographic fallout will reverberate for decades to come, affecting any future economic recovery or political transition.
By Will Freeman
Gang warfare, hunger, and a disintegrating health-care chain has hollowed out Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven hundred miles away, the U.S. government has revoked TPS, a humanitarian immigration status used by Haitians since the...
By Sam Vigersky
Food has increasingly become a tool of war, triggering humanitarian devastation and disrupting global food supplies. International authorities appear incapable of responding.
By Diana Roy
Russia’s attacks on cultural heritage in occupied Ukraine are neither accidental nor merely symbolic, experts say. They are an attempt to rewrite history, erase Ukraine’s identity, and make annexation permanent.
By Mariel Ferragamo
An unprecedented emigration wave has emptied Cuba of up to a quarter of its population since 2020. The demographic fallout will reverberate for decades to come, affecting any future economic recovery or political transition.
By Will Freeman
Gang warfare, hunger, and a disintegrating health-care chain has hollowed out Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven hundred miles away, the U.S. government has revoked TPS, a humanitarian immigration status used by Haitians since the...
By Sam Vigersky
Food has increasingly become a tool of war, triggering humanitarian devastation and disrupting global food supplies. International authorities appear incapable of responding.
By Diana Roy
Russia’s attacks on cultural heritage in occupied Ukraine are neither accidental nor merely symbolic, experts say. They are an attempt to rewrite history, erase Ukraine’s identity, and make annexation permanent.
By Mariel Ferragamo
An unprecedented emigration wave has emptied Cuba of up to a quarter of its population since 2020. The demographic fallout will reverberate for decades to come, affecting any future economic recovery or political transition.
By Will Freeman
Gang warfare, hunger, and a disintegrating health-care chain has hollowed out Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven hundred miles away, the U.S. government has revoked TPS, a humanitarian immigration status used by Haitians since the...
By Sam Vigersky
Food has increasingly become a tool of war, triggering humanitarian devastation and disrupting global food supplies. International authorities appear incapable of responding.
By Diana Roy
Russia’s attacks on cultural heritage in occupied Ukraine are neither accidental nor merely symbolic, experts say. They are an attempt to rewrite history, erase Ukraine’s identity, and make annexation permanent.
By Mariel Ferragamo
An unprecedented emigration wave has emptied Cuba of up to a quarter of its population since 2020. The demographic fallout will reverberate for decades to come, affecting any future economic recovery or political transition.
By Will Freeman
Gang warfare, hunger, and a disintegrating health-care chain has hollowed out Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven hundred miles away, the U.S. government has revoked TPS, a humanitarian immigration status used by Haitians since the...
By Sam Vigersky
Food has increasingly become a tool of war, triggering humanitarian devastation and disrupting global food supplies. International authorities appear incapable of responding.
By Diana Roy
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The U.S., Denmark, and Greenland Reached a Security Deal. Here’s What to Know.
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Hunger on the Horizon: The New Black Sea Grain Crisis
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Who Will Be the Next UN Secretary-General?
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The Age of Economic Warfare
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Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson trace those ripples, examining how international developments shape markets, policy, finance, and the future of business.
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Crisis Response Playbooks
The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks for U.S. policy planners when bandwidth is limited and decisions are consequential.
When armed conflict disrupts a critical maritime trade route, the United States can monitor, contain, or escalate the situation economically or militarily.
When a U.S. partner state faces a hybrid attack by an unknown aggressor, the United States should draw on various available response options to protect its treaty commitments, credibility, and commercial interests.
When a coup occurs abroad, the early hours of the crisis are most crucial for preserving and promoting U.S. interests—whether countering terrorism, checking adversaries’ regional influence, upholding human rights norms, or maintaining diplomatic and economic relationships. Policy planners should therefore prepare for the unexpected.
Insurgency-related conflicts often start without warning and can last over a decade, making the pre-crisis and early crisis phases crucial for U.S. policymakers seeking to prevent national security threats and humanitarian disasters from emerging. Effective responses involve a complex set of legal authorities and international frameworks and require the sustained support of the American public and local communities.
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India has been skeptical of the U.S.-led liberal international order since its independence. Now, the United States also seems keen to abandon the order it once championed. This transition period poses a host of challenges—and a few opportunities for collaboration—for the world’s two largest democracies.
The Trump Coalition
A Council on Foreign Relations study group convened scholars and political analysts to examine the foreign policy views of several groups of 2024 Donald Trump voters: Hispanic, Black, Jewish, Muslim, evangelical, and white working-class Americans who supported Trump in that year’s election.
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) means policymakers need to navigate a future defined by technological uncertainty. To help them do so, CFR asked foreign policy experts to predict how frontier AI capabilities and the governance structures that could emerge around them will affect the global order.
By Jessica Brandt, Adam Segal, Jacob Wentz and Zoë Moore
The U.S. weapons arsenal has been depleted and no longer has the capacity to deter a Chinese attack against Taiwan. In order to prepare for future conflicts in the South China Sea and elsewhere, the United States should undertake reforms of its defense industrial base to focus on the scaling of precise mass systems.
The Pharma Choke Point
The U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain faces a threat equal to the “rare earths” challenge already posed by China’s exploitation of its dominance of those critical minerals. The authors provide an archetype model that policymakers and researchers can use to anticipate and mitigate a crisis.
Washington needs to pursue a Belarus policy that cautiously renews relations with Minsk, engages Moscow to reduce the risk of overreaction, and prepares for annexation despite Washington’s best efforts to prevent it, argues CFR Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Fellow Thomas Graham.
A gap in private funding for companies and projects inhibits energy innovation in the United States. This “missing middle” slows or blocks technologies that could help the energy system become more secure, affordable, reliable, and sustainable from advancing through the demonstration and scale-up stages. Recent events have made the missing middle wider.
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