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July 30, 2019

Elections and Voting
Tim Ryan

CFR invited the presidential candidates challenging President Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their positions on twelve critical foreign policy issues. Candidates’ answers are posted exactly…

Tim Ryan

May 28, 2024

Election 2024
Ailing Democracy and Declining Women’s Representation: How They Are Related and What to Do About It

Annual reports on the health of democracy this year reaffirmed an ongoing trend of decline, which has occurred alongside a less heralded but related stalling of women’s political participation. Given…

A woman leaves after casting her vote at a polling station during the sixth phase of the general election, in New Delhi, India, May 25, 2024.

April 25, 2018

Defense and Security
How Representative Is the All-Volunteer U.S. Military?

The U.S. military’s all-volunteer force has drawn on a shrinking pool of Americans, raising questions about the model’s viability.

President Barack Obama speaks at a commencement ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

May 23, 2024

Middle East Program
Constitutions Thick and Thin

The sharp debate in Israel last year over “judicial reform” raised basic questions that arise in most democracies about constitutions: What are they meant to be and to do? Even the definition of a…

May 24, 2024

RealEcon
Weighing Biden’s China Tariffs

Global risks–including Chinese overcapacity–have increased, but government intervention should seek to minimize trade-offs.

The truck cab is lowered on the frame of Ford Motor Co. battery powered F-150 Lightning trucks under production at their Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on September 20, 2022. - Construction crews are back at Dearborn, remaking Ford's century-old industrial complex once again, this time for a post-petroleum era that is finally beginning to feel possible. The manufacturing operation's prime mission in recent times has been to assemble the best-selling F-150, a gasoline-powered vehicle

May 28, 2024

Trade
The Man Who Would Help Trump Upend the Global Economy

As a potential U.S. Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionize.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's 2020 Trade Policy Agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

May 2, 2024

RealEcon
Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific: An ADB Perspective

As part of the CFR RealEcon Roundtable Series, Scott Morris, vice president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), explained how the ADB supports countries in the Indo-Pacific region amid shifting geop…

Scott Morris speaks at a CFR roundtable event.

May 10, 2024

Asia
What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Southeast Asia

His aggressive stance toward China could force many in the region to pick a side.

Personal aide John McEntee directs U.S. President Donald Trump as he participates in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Manila,