As the war in Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) offers background and analysis and Foreign Affairs has curated a special package on the continuing conflic…

The Nuclear Energy Project, a new partnership between the Council on Foreign Relations and Washington and Lee University (W&L), will take the debate on nuclear power as an energy source to a new leve…

Over the last hundred years, many experts have fallen prey to fears that the world’s oil is dwindling and prices are doomed to rise, yet such predictions have repeatedly proven wrong, writes Blake C…

The first full account of American isolationism throughout U.S. history

The U.S.-Saudi relationship has become strained by increasing mistrust and misunderstanding—most recently over Egypt and Bahrain—and gone are the old foundations of the informal alliance: the Cold Wa…