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The Sanctioning Russia Act would impose history’s highest tariffs and tank the global economy. Congress needs a better approach, one that strengthens existing sanctions and adds new measures the current bill ignores.
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U.S. Foreign Policy Program
A rapidly changing world poses both challenges and opportunities to the United States. The U.S. Foreign Policy program seeks to understand those challenges and opportunities, and assess the forces and dynamics shaping U.S. foreign policy decision-making, and offer specific recommendations for action.
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William Henagan, a research fellow at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the current state of U.S. foreign aid programs after President Donald Trump’s reforms.
Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Meaghan Mobbs, Brent Sadler, and Jacob Olidort, testified on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 to the House Oversight and Gover…
China and Russia’s quasi-alliance endangers U.S. national interests. Its management will prove a generational task for American policymakers—but there are grounds for optimism, argue CFR Senior Fellow Robert Blackwill and Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine.
Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether a return to great power spheres of influence is practical in the twenty-first century.
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The White House may have reason to believe that international drug trafficking is a grave threat to Americans, but it hasn’t persuasively made the legal case that cartels are waging a war against the United States.