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Low water levels have led to a traffic jam at one of the world’s busiest maritime passages. The bottleneck demonstrates how accelerating climate change is threatening global supply chains.
Counterterrorism
Immigration and terrorism in the United States are indeed linked, but the issue is far more complex than some commentators suggest.
President Joe Biden’s attempts to grapple with a record number of migrants are keeping the role of border enforcement at the center of the U.S. immigration debate.
Immigration and Migration
Russia has renewed its long-stalled push for unification with Belarus, using the country as a launchpad for its war against Ukraine and a hardening bulwark against NATO rivals to the west.
The short-lived Wagner Group revolt highlighted for Europeans the fragility of Vladimir Putin’s regime and their own vulnerability to an unstable Russia.
United Nations
Ian Johnson, the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Chinese filmmakers, journalists, and artists are challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history.
The ebb and flow of these former Chinese rising political stars’ careers provides insights into the intricacies of Chinese elite politics (and the fate of Qin Gang).
Climate Change
For decades, U.S. homeowners have counted on property insurance to protect them from catastrophic loss if their homes are destroyed—and the U.S. economy has rested on the functionality of that model. But as this summer’s extreme weather broke records, private companies reduced their coverage. As climate disasters become more frequent, can home insurance hold up?
Accelerating risks and damage from climate change are spurring private insurers in the United States to limit coverage in a growing number of areas, thus imposing mounting stress on local communities and straining the country’s overall economic health.
Ukraine
If Western allies fail to send Ukraine the weapons it needs, the odds increase of the war dragging on indefinitely, at a terrible cost to both Ukraine and Russia and a growing risk to the wider world.
Six graphics illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.
Events
Panelists assess the current state of human rights in the Middle East, along with the impact of U.S foreign policy on human rights, regional partnerships, and geopolitical dynamics.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Technology and foreign policy experts discuss the paradoxical nature of artificial intelligence’s extraordinary growth opportunities and its significant potential for disruption and risk, as well as the necessity of establishing new governance mechanisms to both control and harness this potentially defining technology.
Ian Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
Expert Spotlight
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics
Catherine Powell
Adjunct 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
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Matthias Matthijs
Senior Fellow for Europe
Europe European Union NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Richard Haass
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Adjunct 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
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies
Jennifer Nuzzo
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Health Public Health Threats and Pandemics Health Policy and Initiatives
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Explainers
Abortion Law: Global Comparisons
Mexico recently decriminalized abortion, continuing a global trend of expanding permissions for the procedure. See how countries worldwide approach the issue.
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