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Recently reelected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox policies have rocked Turkey’s economy, leaving him with no choice but to turn toward orthodoxy and hope for the best.
Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan means for U.S.-Turkey relations and the future of NATO.
Immigration and Migration
Immigration has long been a touchstone of the U.S. political debate. Comprehensive reform continues to elude Congress.
Record numbers of migrants seeking to cross the southern U.S. border are challenging the Joe Biden administration’s attempts to restore asylum protections. Here’s how the asylum process works.
Public Health
Opioid addiction and abuse in the United States has become a prolonged epidemic, endangering public health, economic output, and national security.
Latin America
Forget regional integration. Basic diplomacy will remain an uphill battle until the region’s leaders return to a shared definition of democracy.
Three decades after its founding, Latin America’s largest trade bloc continues to deal with internal divisions, including over a stalled trade deal with the European Union. How could the return of Brazil’s Lula change the calculus?
Brazil has long sought a greater role on the world stage, but political upheaval and other enduring challenges have complicated its efforts.
United States
Now that Congress voted to pass a bill based on the Biden-McCarthy compromise, an immediate debt ceiling crisis appears to have been averted. Still, a much larger debt problem awaits.
As the U.S. government grapples with another deadline to increase its debt ceiling in 2023, economists warn that a possible default could have disastrous economic consequences.
Food Security
Feeding the world's eight billion people has never been easy. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked the market for fertilizer, that task has gotten even harder. The fertilizer crisis threatens to exacerbate food insecurity worldwide, especially in low-income countries already reeling from record-high inflation and rapidly depreciating currencies. What is fertilizer’s role in the food supply chain?
Conflicts in Ethiopia and Ukraine are exacerbating food scarcity in a region where millions of people already suffer from severe hunger.
The war is threatening the region’s access to much-needed supplies, but certain countries are more vulnerable than others to food shortages and unrest.
Events
Panelists discuss the status of democracy in Latin America, including the possibility of increased U.S. support, and the trends contributing to fluctuations in democracy across the region.
This meeting is part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy.
After two decades as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass discusses his experience with leadership both inside and outside of government, lessons learned along the way, as well as his ideas on the obligations of citizenship and the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
Members are encouraged to include their high school- or college-age children or grandchildren in this event. All members are welcome to attend.
Both Richard Haass and Shannon O'Neil will be speaking from CFR's headquarters in New York.
White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall discusses how the Biden Administration prepares for and responds to a broad range of threats to the Homeland.
The Kenneth A. Moskow Memorial Lecture on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism honors the memory of longtime Council member Kenneth A. Moskow, who made this event possible through a generous bequest. His intent was to establish an annual event to bring together the leaders of the intelligence community and promote discussion on critical issues in counterterrorism.
Expert Spotlight
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Trade Immigration and Migration Economics
@edwardalden
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Middle East and North Africa Turkey Kurds
@hbarkey
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Catherine Powell
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Bruce Hoffman
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Wars and Conflict Intelligence
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Senior Fellow for Economics
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
@TomBollyky
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
International Law Cybersecurity Health
@D_P_Fidler
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Fellow for International Political Economy
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. 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
Middle East and North Africa Turkey Arab Spring
@stevenacook
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Explainers
The Complicated U.S.-China Relationship
The United States and China have an important and complex relationships marked by periods of both tension and cooperation over issues including trade, climate change, and Taiwan.
Featured Publications
A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if American democracy is to survive.
Shannon K. O’Neil offers a powerful case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the last forty years.
Joshua Kurlantzick analyzes China's attempts to become a media, information, and influence superpower, seeking for the first time to shape the domestic politics, local media, and information environments of the United States, East Asia, parts of Europe, and the broader world.