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The President’s Inbox podcast discusses how the United States is struggling to stop the flood of fentanyl entering the country, where it is fueling a public health emergency.
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Opioid addiction and abuse in the United States has become a prolonged epidemic, endangering public health, economic output, and national security.
Latin America
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.
Turkey
Turkey’s geography and membership in NATO have long given the country an influential voice in foreign policy, but the assertive policies of President Erdogan have complicated its role.
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu discusses Türkiye’s foreign policy and U.S.-Turkish relations.
United States
The National Guard is a special part of the U.S. military that answers to both state governors and the president. While it began as a “strategic reserve,” the guard has grown into a pivotal partner in military operations.
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?
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
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
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
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
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
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
Catherine Powell
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Fellow for International Political Economy
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Senior Fellow for Economics
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics
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.