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Immigration has been a touchstone of the U.S. political debate for decades, but comprehensive reform continues to elude Congress. As border crossings increase, how are policymakers responding?
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
The President’s Inbox podcast discusses how the United States is struggling to stop the flood of the dangerous drug into the country.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. 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
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Senior Fellow for Economics
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Global Governance International Organizations Regional Organizations
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Christopher M. Tuttle
Senior Fellow and Director of the Renewing America Initiative
Congresses and Parliaments Polls and Public Opinion Elections and Voting
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
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.