CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy? And what is the policy stance of the world as a whole?
Each year, the General Assembly hosts a much-watched debate of world leaders. The 2025 meeting focused on climate change, artificial intelligence governance, UN reform, and the ongoing wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.
To protect its strategic interests in Taiwan in the event of a conflict with China, the United States should consider investing more time, energy, and resources towards an often-overlooked arena of defense competition: space superiority.
by Andrew Hanna and Kathleen Curlee September 24, 2025
Asia Unbound
As the UN General Assembly convenes for its eightieth session, one major topic of debate is the secretary-general’s internal reform plan, which proposes significant budget cuts and agency consolidations. What could these changes mean for the United Nations’ future?
The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.
The UN Security Council is the premier global body for maintaining international peace and security, but it faces steady calls for reform to better meet twenty-first-century challenges.
Virtual Eventby Chinmayi Arun, Emma M. Ashford, Ajay Banga, Theresa Cardinal Brown, Alonso Cervera, Renée DiResta, Janet Haven, Oriana Skylar Mastro, Marisol G. Maddox, Alina Polyakova, Adam Segal
, Michael Sfraga, Steve Verheul, Margaret D. Williams, Edward Alden
, Esther Brimmer
, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Michael Froman
, Meghan L. O'Sullivan and David M. Rubenstein June 12, 2025
India’s space policy, once driven primarily by domestic development goals, is increasingly aligning with that of the United States. How it approaches the norms of space governance, however, could provide a path for other Global South nations.
President Trump’s NOAA cuts will significantly hamper the public’s understanding of the environment and weather forecasting, negatively affecting people in the United States and abroad.
The island’s residents have voted in favor of a party that seeks gradual independence from Denmark. But Greenland has attracted significant attention from President Trump, who sees the island’s considerable mineral wealth and location in the Arctic as necessary for U.S. national security.
In this episode of The Interconnect, Stanford University Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Simone D’Amico and CFR’s Space Task Force Project Director Esther Brimmer discuss how private companies are driving innovation in orbit, the new moon race that’s underway, and how increased commercial and military activity raises questions about the responsible use of space.
Nina Armagno, retired United States Space Force lieutenant general, and Jane Harman, former congresswoman and president emerita of the Wilson Center, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the increasing importance of space as a commercial opportunity and strategic vulnerability for the United States.