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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August 5, 2020

Race and Ethnicity

“Viral Convergence”: Interconnected Pandemics as Portal to Racial Justice

In this piece (which is part of a special Just Security “Racing National Security” symposium), Catherine Powell argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a window into the pandemics of policing,…

Blog Post by Catherine Powell Women Around the World

September 9, 2009

Technology and Innovation

Technology and Commerce: The Impact on International Coverage

Watch experts discuss the impact of technology on the press and the future of traditional media. This session was part of the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship 60th Anniversary Event, which was made…

Event

February 12, 2018

Women and Women's Rights

Women’s Economic Opportunity Starts in the Family

Today nearly 90 percent of nations still have laws on the books that block women’s work, including discriminatory laws and customs surrounding family life that perpetuate unequal access to assets and…

Women carry baskets with food items at a market in Blantyre, Malawi

Event by The Honorable Joyce Banda and Jamille Bigio Women and Foreign Policy Program

April 11, 2019

France

A Conversation with François Villeroy de Galhau

Governor Villeroy discusses economic and financial developments in France and the European Union, monetary challenges for 2019, and related risks.

Event by François Villeroy de Galhau and Paul J. Sheard

June 24, 2010

International Organizations

The World Trade Organization and the Global Economic Crisis

Pascal Lamy will discuss how the global trading system helped to stabilize the global economic crisis and how it can do more. Related Readings: The Vanishing WTO by Marc Levinson Greenberg Center …

Event by Pascal Lamy