Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
Introduction
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…
18 Results for:
Filters
January 26, 2021
News Release
New Book Shows Why the Shah’s Iran Collapsed From Within—and Why the Islamists Today May Have a Similar Fate
Offering a new view of one of America’s most important, strained, and misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty tells the histo…
January 7, 2003
United States
Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality
For further information contact: April Wahlestedt, Director of Communications (212) 434-9544 October 15, 1999, New York, NY - Is globalization a major contributor to increasing wage inequ…
March 19, 2012
United States
Ailing Public Education System Jeopardizes U.S. National Security, CFR Task Force Argues
The United States’ failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country’s ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role, finds a new Co…
October 31, 2017
Diplomacy and International Institutions
U.S. Sovereignty Enhanced, Not Undermined, by International Cooperation, Writes Stewart Patrick in New CFR Book
October 31, 2017—When the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord in June, President Donald J. Trump justified the move as a necessary reassertion of U.S. sovereignty. In The Sovereignty…
March 22, 2007
Trade
WTO Trade Rules Benefit the United States, Says New Council Report
The Doha negotiations have stalled and the November elections in the United States showed that advocates of economic nationalism are growing in strength. Nevertheless, a new Council Special Report ma…