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December 9, 2025

Trade
The Global Trading System Faces a Historic Change

While U.S. trade policy has disrupted global trade, it presents an opportunity for the rest of the world to regroup and reform the architecture of the rules-based trade system to meet modern challeng…

January 12, 2026

United States
Did Dean Acheson Unintentionally Encourage the Start of the Korean War?

The secretary of state’s failure to include South Korea within the U.S. defensive perimeter in Asia in a January 1950 speech sparked accusations that he had invited North Korea’s invasion five months…

December 29, 2025

Nigeria
The Dynamics Behind Trump’s Decision to Bomb ISIS in Nigeria

Facing the Sahel’s growing terrorism threat, the Trump administration could discover that its avoidance of “long-term American presence or commitments” in Africa is impracticable.

June 18, 2013

Financial Markets
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics with Neil Irwin

Join Neil Irwin as he discusses the central bankers' role in the great financial crisis and the historical relationship between capitalism and the state. The C. Peter McColough Series on Internation…

Podcast

September 17, 2025

How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: John Sawers

Following an illustrious diplomatic career, John Sawers became the chief of the United Kingdom intelligence service, MI6. He sat down with CFR to talk about the importance of overseas postings and wh…

About CFR

The Douglas Dillon Fellowship

Each year the Council on Foreign Relations names one of its early career fellows the Dillon Fellow, in honor of former CFR Vice Chairman C. Douglas Dillon.

July 30, 2008

Trade
Trade Liberalization

Overview The news that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization has broken down in Geneva has made many Americans pessimistic about the future of multilateral trade agreements. Politicians o…

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