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June 14, 2012

Monetary Policy
Can Household Risk-Aversion Measures Predict Fed Policy?

The so-called Taylor Rule in monetary policy suggests how the Federal Reserve should adjust interest rates based on movements in inflation and economic output.  Although the Fed has never explicit…

Can Household Risk-Aversion Measures Predict Fed Policy?
Blog Post by Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies Geo-Graphics

April 17, 2015

United States
Guest Post: Shifting Allegiances - Rethinking U.S.-Pakistan Relations

Aliza Litchman is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations.  The once strong U.S.-Pakistan relationship may be set to expire. Since the Afghan-Soviet war (19…

China and Pakistan
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

February 1, 2013

Iran
Breakfast With the Supreme Leader

This past week I participated in a conference on Iran convened by the Henry Jackson Society of London and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy of Washington, DC. As the executive director of …

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

July 24, 2020

Wars and Conflict
Five Movies Worth Watching About Revolts, Rebellions, and Revolutions

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: movies about uprisings.

Movie posters clockwise from top left: Doctor Zhivago/Roger Ebert; Mandela/People’s World; Lawrence of Arabia/Amazon; Braveheart/Google Play; The Crying Game/CineMaterial; Michael Collins/Amazon.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

January 8, 2016

Cuba
Obama and Cuba: Ideology Over National Security

In previous posts I’ve argued that President Obama’s "opening to Cuba" gave the Castro brothers everything they wanted and got nothing for the United States--or for Cubans struggling peacefully for h…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points