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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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February 20, 2024

Ukraine

Virtual Media Briefing: The Two-Year Anniversary of the War in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary on February 24, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations discuss the current state of the war, its long-term impact on the international o…

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens a report of a Ukrainian serviceman.

Virtual Event by Liana Fix, Charles A. Kupchan, Stephen Sestanovich, and Miriam Elder Europe Program

September 18, 2023

United States

Happy 76th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks seventy-six years of service.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

February 28, 2024

Trade

World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

A worker sits as a crane unloads containers from a ship

Event by Jan Hatzius, Karen Karniol-Tambour, Jens Nordvig, and Sebastian Mallaby Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

November 14, 2022

Taiwan

How Taiwan Is Assessing and Responding to Growing Threats From China

Taiwan needs to more urgently prepare for a Chinese attack

A CH-47 flies across Taipei during a rehearsal ahead of National Day celebrations

Blog Post by David Sacks Asia Unbound

September 12, 2022

Afghanistan

Preview Screening and Discussion of “Escape From Kabul”

Escape From Kabul unfolds over eighteen monumental days in August 2021, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan citize…

Virtual Event by Elliot Ackerman, Laurel E. Miller, Jamie Roberts, and Deborah Amos

January 8, 2003

United States

Chuck Boyd to take over CFR Washington Office

For further information contact: April Palmerlee, Director of Communications 434-9544 March 27, 2001 – General Charles G. Boyd will be the new Council on Foreign Relations Senior Vice Presiden…

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