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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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The Iraq that emerged after the U.S. invasion is weakly governed, leaving it prone to instability and meddling by neighbors—especially Iran.
Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, we are still in this final phase, seeking an elusive consensus about the war’s legacy.
China
Xi Jinping used China’s annual legislative session to lock in his tenure as president and reinforce his assertive foreign policy.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen will visit the United States next month. China is sure to retaliate, but how far it goes will say a lot about the trajectory of cross-strait and U.S.-China relations.
Financial Markets
The collapse of SVB is a reminder that the fastest way for the United States to cede ground in the present era of great power competition is to debase its financial system and relinquish its global financial leadership position.
Russia
After its invasion of Ukraine, concerns flared over a decoupling of Russia from the global internet. This has not materialized, but we may be witnessing the start of a more fundamental fragmentation of the global internet.
Mexico
Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Mexico’s new electoral law and other developments that may be eroding the country’s democratic governance.
Fully implementing and funding its 2008 constitutional reform of the justice system would reduce impunity, boost public confidence and uphold the basic rule of law.
Israel
Arabs represent one-fifth of Israel’s population. Systemic discrimination, outbreaks of communal violence, and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue to strain their ties with Israel’s Jewish majority.
Martin S. Indyk, the Lowy distinguished fellow in U.S.-Middle East diplomacy at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the consequences of Benjamin Netanyahu’s return as Israel’s prime minister.
Events
The CFR Academic luncheon event held in conjunction with the International Studies Association Convention featured a discussion on Geopolitics in the Middle East on Friday, March 17, in Montréal.
The conversation featured 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 at CFR; Nicole Grajewski, Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; and Catherine E. Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University. Lawrence P. Rubin, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, moderated the discussion.
Peggy Hamburg discusses her distinguished career as an internationally recognized leader in science, medicine, and public health. Hamburg served as the twenty-first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, and the founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and currently chairs the Harvard Medical School board of fellows and serves on numerous other nonprofit boards and advisory councils.
Lessons Learned is a roundtable series, open to term members and younger life members, which features distinguished speakers who reflect on their career experiences, the choices they made along the way, and the lessons they have learned from them.
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Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Bruce Hoffman
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Wars and Conflict Intelligence
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Matthias Matthijs
Senior Fellow for Europe
Europe European Union NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Catherine Powell
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Thomas J. Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Adam Segal
Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Scott A. Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Global Governance International Organizations Regional Organizations
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and 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
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Explainers
How New Tobacco Laws Could Narrow the Racial Gap on Cancer
This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.
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