Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. Despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate cha…

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

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. Despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate cha…

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 ha…

Event with Meena Bose, David J. Scheffer, Ruti G. Teitel and Jacob M. Weisberg December 2, 2025

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

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November 22, 2006

United States

Current Patent System is Misguided and Hinders U.S. Competitiveness, Argues New Council Special Report

Reforms of the U.S. patent system have made it too easy to obtain and defend patents and more costly to challenge patent decisions, thereby limiting the competition of ideas, discouraging innovation,…

News Releases by Keith Maskus

November 15, 2006

Intellectual Property

Reforming U.S. Patent Policy

Overview The conversation on American competitiveness is often intertwined with the conversation on innovation. The liberalization of trade and the increasing influence of emerging markets such…

Council Special Report by Keith E. Maskus Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

November 21, 2005

China

Keith Bradsher demolishes the myth that China is a great market for American goods

The money quote in Bradsher's article in last Friday's New York Times comes from Matthew Crabbe: "The only US-produced items that I can think exist in large quantities in China are dollars bills." …

Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

July 14, 2025

Daily News Brief

Trump Threatens EU, Mexico With New Tariffs

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

Article by CFR Editors

July 14, 2025

Daily News Brief

United States to Send Weapons to Ukraine

Article by CFR Editors

June 23, 2025

Daily News Brief

Iran Pledges Response to U.S. Strikes

Article by CFR Editors

June 13, 2025

Iran

Media Briefing: Israel, Iran, and What Comes Next for the Region

CFR experts discuss Israel's strikes against Iran's nuclear program, Iran's possible response, and further implications for the region, including the potential for war. The video and transcript of…

Anti-Israeli protest following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran

Virtual Event by Elliott Abrams, Henri J. Barkey, Steven A. Cook, Ed Husain, Ray Takeyh, and Elise Labott Media Briefings