Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 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…

Interactive 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

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

Democracy

Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance

The rapidly changing landscape of foreign influence demands a new approach, argues Senior Fellow for Global Governance Miles Kahler. Countering malign influence from abroad will require a stronger democracy at home.

Council Special Report by Miles Kahler October 23, 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

Democracy

Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance

Council Special Report by Miles Kahler October 23, 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

United States

A Conversation With Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General, discusses his role as the nation's doctor, including addressing the loneliness epidemic, the importance of social connection, and combatting the youth mental health crisis.

Event with Vivek H. Murthy and Thomas J. Bollyky September 25, 2024

United States

A Conversation With Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Event with Vivek H. Murthy and Thomas J. Bollyky September 25, 2024

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October 21, 2024

United States

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Martin Wolf

Martin Wolf discusses how the outcome of the U.S. presidential election might change the world’s political economy and the path ahead. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics bri…

The associate editor and chief economic commentator of the Financial Times, Martin Wolf, speaks at the closing of an event in in Illa de Toxa, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

Virtual Event by Martin Wolf and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera

July 25, 2024

United States

In Memoriam: Martin S. Indyk

CFR’s Distinguished Fellow Martin S. Indyk passed away on July 25, 2024, at age 73. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) mourns the passing of Martin S. Indyk, CFR’s Lowy distinguished fello…

News Releases

January 10, 2023

Israel

Israel’s New Government, With Martin Indyk

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 pri…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press after a traditional government group photo at the President's house on December 29, 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Martin S. Indyk The President’s Inbox

October 19, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy

CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series With Martin Indyk

Martin Indyk discusses his new book, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy. A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the…

Virtual Event by Martin S. Indyk, Martin S. Indyk, Richard Haass, and Richard Haass CFR Fellows’ Book Launch

August 25, 2020

Israel

The Israel-UAE Peace Deal, With Martin S. Indyk

Martin S. Indyk, distinguished fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the Abraham Accord, which was brokered by the United States and will begin normalizing relations between Israe…

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Martin S. Indyk The President’s Inbox

November 2, 2021

Diplomacy and International Institutions

Kissinger's Middle East Diplomacy, With Martin S. Indyk

Martin S. Indyk, distinguished fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy reshaped the politics of the Middle East and contin…

Henry Kissinger, the American Secretary of State, attends a press conference at the Kings Hotel in Jerusalem, during a trip with President Nixon to the Middle East.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Martin S. Indyk The President’s Inbox