Council on Foreign Relations

Paris to Kyoto: The History of UN Climate Agreements

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.

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong November 6, 2025 Renewing America

Climate Change

Paris to Kyoto: The History of UN Climate Agreements

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.

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong November 6, 2025 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

China Strategy Initiative

Protecting the Foundation: Strengthening Export Controls on Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment

Mr. McGuire’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee argues that export controls related to semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) and advanced semiconductors are one of the most power…

Testimony by Chris McGuire November 20, 2025 Asia Program

China Strategy Initiative

Protecting the Foundation: Strengthening Export Controls on Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment

Testimony by Chris McGuire November 20, 2025 Asia Program

United States

Reckoning with History: Presidential Leadership and Moral Responsibility

Panelists discuss how U.S. presidents have leveraged executive power to confront political violence, human rights abuses, and other global challenges, highlighting the ways presidential leadership has shaped America’s legacy of responsibility, reconciliation, and transitional justice. Please note there is no virtual component to the meeting.

Event with Meena Bose, David J. Scheffer, Ruti G. Teitel and Jacob M. Weisberg December 2, 2025 International Institutions and Global Governance Program

United States

Reckoning with History: Presidential Leadership and Moral Responsibility

Event with Meena Bose, David J. Scheffer, Ruti G. Teitel and Jacob M. Weisberg December 2, 2025 International Institutions and Global Governance Program

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Americas

Educational Reform in Latin America

Overview During the past five years, most of the countries of Latin America have begun to walk down the path of economic and political reform. A new generation of leaders has implemented tariff re…

Report by Allison L.C. de Cerreño and Cassandra Pyle

November 5, 2014

United States

Ten Cold War Novels Worth Reading

If you want to know the facts about the Cold War, you should read histories and memoirs. If you want to know how the Cold War felt, you should read novels. Why? Because “fiction reveals truths that r…

Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

February 13, 2019

Trade

Trump’s Trade Warrior Takes the Fight to Beijing

Robert Lighthizer has been railing against China’s bad behavior for decades. Now, he has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make it stop.

Article by Edward Alden Renewing America

January 10, 2019

Disasters

Averting Global Catastrophe: A New IIGG Blog Series

Nature and technology pose a worrying array of threats to twenty-first century civilization. These global menaces and the catastrophic risks associated with them are the subject of a new Internationa…