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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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November 7, 2022
United States
Leslie H. Gelb Memorial Event: Common Sense and Strategy in Foreign Policy
This special event is being held to honor the memory of Leslie H. Gelb, CFR’s president from 1993 to 2003 and a dedicated member for forty-six years, who died on August 31, 2019. Gelb modernized the …
September 1, 2019
United States
In Memoriam: Leslie H. Gelb
CFR President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb passed away on August 31, 2019, at age eighty-two.
April 19, 2006
Iraq
Gelb: Rumsfeld’s Resignation Should Have Been Accepted a Year Ago
Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of CFR, and a former Pentagon and State Department official in the Johnson and Carter administrations, says the public criticism of Secretary of Defense Donald M. R…
October 16, 2007
Iraq
Gelb: Federalism Is Most Promising Way to End Civil War in Iraq
Former CFR President Leslie H. Gelb says the plan to persuade Iraqis to accept a federal form of government is the best way to “maintain harmony among the different Iraqi groups,” although it remains…
April 4, 2003
Iraq
Council President Gelb Says Battlefield Victory [in Iraq] Will Be Soon, but the War Will Go on for Months to Come
Leslie H. Gelb, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, answered readers’ questions on the future of U.S. foreign policy. The New York Times online chat was hosted by Bernard Gwertzman,…