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An intelligence leak by a national guardsman and ongoing deployments at the southern border have cast a spotlight on the guard’s growing role in military operations and national security.
National Security and Defense Program
All current U.S. military personnel have one thing in common: they volunteered. But falling recruitment has raised questions of national security, military readiness, and the health of U.S. society. Can the all-volunteer force handle a changing international security landscape?
Pakistan
Massive political, economic, and climate challenges, each one compounding the other, threaten the South Asian country this year. What’s at stake?
Nigeria
Up against the wall, Tinubu will need his famed political savvy—and more—to stanch rising discontent in Nigeria.
At a moment of deep generational fracture, the political opposition would seem to be the least of Bola Tinubu’s problems.
United States
The stories of five Americans who were awarded the Medal of Honor for making the ultimate sacrifice.
As 2022 comes to a close, here are ten Americans we lost this year who made a mark in foreign policy.
G7 (Group of Seven)
Prime Minister Kishida Fumio hosts the G7 summit as an outspoken champion of the rules-based international order. Japan hopes to galvanize support and recognition of its own security concerns in the Indo-Pacific as well.
Diplomacy and International Institutions
The Group of Seven (G7) serves as a forum to coordinate global policy, but experts are increasingly questioning the group’s relevance.
KISSINGER AND THE COUNCIL
As the former secretary of state marks his one hundredth birthday, Richard Haass looks back at his long, substantive relationship with CFR.
As the former secretary of state marks his one hundredth birthday, Richard Haass looks back at his long, substantive relationship with CFR.
Events
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.
The U.S. military service chiefs discuss U.S. defense priorities around the world and the state of the American armed forces.
The Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership features prominent individuals from the military and intelligence communities.
Dan Schulman discusses the future of the digital economy, the evolving role of business in society, and leadership lessons learned as president and CEO of PayPal.
The CEO Speaker Series is a unique forum for leading global CEOs to share their insights on issues at the center of commerce and foreign policy, and to discuss the changing role of business globally.
Expert Spotlight
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Jennifer Nuzzo
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Health Public Health Threats and Pandemics Health Policy and Initiatives
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
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Global Governance International Organizations Regional Organizations
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 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
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Fellow for International Political Economy
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Middle East and North Africa Turkey Kurds
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Gideon Rose
Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Wars and Conflict Middle East and North Africa Southeast Asia
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Christopher M. Tuttle
Senior Fellow and Director of the Renewing America Initiative
Congresses and Parliaments Polls and Public Opinion Elections and Voting
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
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.