April 24, 2003 - The Council is establishing a senior fellowship in global health and foreign policy studies with a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Global health issues are…

Northeast Asia’s security environment constitutes a formidable foreign policy challenge for the United States. Issues such as the frozen war on the Korean peninsula, China’s expanding military prowes…

When the Berlin Wall collapsed on November 9, 1989—signaling the end of the Cold War—America and the West declared victory: democracy and free markets had prevailed and the United States emerged as t…

  “Governance, let alone democracy, faces grievous, structural challenges in Nigeria,” says Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellow and Former Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell in his n…

Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East by Isobel Coleman