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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April 17, 2024

Indo-Pacific

Reflecting on a Changing Indo-Pacific: A Conversation With Admiral John Aquilino

Admiral John Aquilino discusses his work as commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, as well as the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, solutions to deliver integrated deterrence, and …

The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) (rear) conduct dual aircraft carrier strike group operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific in Philippine Sea.

Event by John C. Aquilino and Mary McInnis Boies

November 10, 2011

Europe

Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Europe's Debt, America's Deficit: The Crisis of the Rich World

Session One: An Overview of the Global Debt Crisis Alan Greenspan, President, Greenspan Associates LLC; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Board Presider: Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice …

Event

May 24, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

Panelists review the humanitarian situation in Gaza and discuss U.S. policy options to address the crisis.

Palestinian boy sleeps on a mattress inside the remains of his family's house in Gaza.

Virtual Event by James Eugene McGoldrick, Kate Phillips-Barrasso, David M. Satterfield, and Ethan Bronner

November 3, 2022

Foreign Policy

Twenty-Seventh Term Member Conference

The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program is supported by a generous gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

Virtual Event by Guillermo S. Christensen, Sara Eisen, Liana Fix, Additional Speaker to be Announced, Tara Hariharan, Suriya Jayanti, Jennifer DJ Nordquist, Stephen Sestanovich, Thomas J. Bollyky, Philip M. Caruso, Julian Gewirtz, Alfred I. Johnson, Lauren Kahn, Patricia M. Kim, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Timothy J. MacDonald, Inu Manak, Matthias Matthijs, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Bill Nelson, Ebenezer Obadare, Brad W. Setser, Neil Shenai, Varun Sivaram, Scott A. Snyder, Erin M. Staine-Pyne, Ray Takeyh, Christopher M. Tuttle, José Miguel Vivanco, Ali Wyne, David Gura, Ché Bolden, Brian Bombassaro, Jon P. Cheatwood, Laura Daniels, Catherine Eng, Carrie Filipetti, Jeffrey W. Goldstein, Cody J. Griner, Jonathan Guyer, Jeremy B. Harrell, Sunny Jha, Claire P. Kaiser, Catherine L. Kelly, Thomas A. Niblock, Anya Schmemann, John K. Warden, Ehsan Zaffar, Katherine Zimmerman, and Nancy D. Bodurtha Renewing America

February 1, 2024

Middle East Program

Virtual Media Briefing: the Drone Strike on a U.S. Base in Jordan

Following the drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan, panelists discuss the possibility of a U.S. military response as well as the implications of conflict spreading in the region. BRANNEN: Thanks…

President Biden briefed after drone attack in Jordan

Virtual Event by Stephen Biddle, Steven A. Cook, Ray Takeyh, and Kate Brannen Media Briefings

November 4, 2021

Taiwan

Twenty-Sixth Term Member Conference

The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program is supported by a generous gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

Virtual Event by Sarah Kapnick, Bonny Lin, Stewart M. Patrick, Shelley Rigger, Paul J. Angelo, Amaka Anku, Abigail S. Bellows, Ellen Cushing, Yael Eisenstat, Mieke Eoyang, Vishaal Hariprasad, Bruce Hoffman, Daniel R. Russel, Nargiza Salidjanova, Jacquelyn G. Schneider, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Hagar Hajjar Chemali, R. David Edelman, Bay Fang, Razi Hashmi, Katherine Kranz Jordan, Marcus Mabry, Nick Schifrin, Calvin Sims, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, David H. Young, Alex B. Zerden, and Katherine Zimmerman

March 6, 2024

International Law

Academic Webinar: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

David J. Scheffer, senior fellow at CFR, leads the conversation on complex humanitarian emergencies. CASA: Welcome to today’s session of the Winter/Spring 2024 CFR Academic Webinar Series. I’m Mar…