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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March 7, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Ramadan Cease-Fire Prospects, Portugal’s Snap Election, Oscars Go International, and More

Negotiators attempt to establish a six-week cease-fire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas before the start of the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan; Portugal holds a snap parliamentary …

U.S. Air Force members work on the preparation of a humanitarian aid drop for Gaza residents on March 5, 2024.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

October 19, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

What International Law Has to Say About the Israel-Hamas War

Hamas’s attack on Israel and the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip raise a host of questions about the combatants’ legal obligations.

Israeli soldiers lined up in a field near the border with the Gaza Strip.

Article by David J. Scheffer International Institutions and Global Governance Program

May 21, 2024

Immigration and Migration

The Strategic Impact of the Global Movement of People: A Conversation With the Council of Councils

Foreign policy institute leaders from around the world discuss the dynamics of global migration, including the importance of international cooperation in managing both the documented and undocumented…

A group of Afghan children and women travel on a truck with their belongings along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border.

Event by Fonteh Akum, Sergio M. Alcocer, Michael Froman, Stefania Kolarz, and Katharine M. Donato

October 4, 2023

International Finance

Academic Webinar: International Financial Architecture

Tamar Gutner, associate professor of international affairs at American University’s School of International Service, leads the conversation on the international financial architecture. FASKIANOS: …

Close up photo of international currency bills layered over each other

Webinar by Tamar L. Gutner and Irina A. Faskianos

December 21, 2023

United States

The Bureaucratic Fix to the Military Recruitment Crisis

Declining recruitment numbers are vexing nearly all branches of the U.S. military. Removing a medical bottleneck could dramatically streamline recruiting for applicants and personnel.

Blog Post by Phillip N. Ash Renewing America

May 30, 2024

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Biden’s Gaza Dilemmas, 80 Years Since D-Day, Mexico’s Milestone Election, and More

U.S. President Joe Biden faces increasing international and domestic pressures on his policy toward the Israel-Hamas war amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip; Western leaders comm…

Veterans salute as the tide comes in on a sand artwork depicting soldiers ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in Broadstairs, Britain, on May 22, 2024.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

May 31, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cyber Week in Review: May 31, 2024

"Eyes on Rafah" circulates on social media; China announces $47.5 billion semiconductor fund; Leaked documents detail Google Search algorithms; France lifts TikTok ban in New Caledonia; TikTok releas…

Pro-independance demonstrators hold a Kanak flags as they face French riot police during a protest outside the New Caledonian northern province assembly while French President Jacques Chirac was paying a visit to the New Caledonian northern city of Kone on July 25, 2003.

Blog Post by Kat Duffy and Kyle Fendorf Net Politics

June 8, 2023

Ukraine

How Bad Is Ukraine’s Humanitarian Crisis a Year Later?

A year after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is suffering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The outflow of millions of refugees has placed a strain on neighboring countries.

In Brief by Diana Roy

September 7, 2023

United States

Council Special Report: Rethinking International Rules on Subsidies

In the Council Special Report Rethinking International Rules on Subsidies, authors Jennifer Hillman and Inu Manak describe how the subsidies rules did little to prevent widespread industrial use by c…