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November 18, 2024

United States
The Interconnections of Science and Foreign Policy

In the inaugural launch of this new forum on science and foreign policy, U.S. State Department science envoys—specializing in fusion energy, ocean sustainability, and quantum technology—discuss the r…

Play U.S. 2024 science envoys speak at a science and foreign policy event at CFR's New York City office.
Virtual Event by Stephanie Diem, Dawn Wright, and Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg Norman E. Alexander Family M Foundation Forum on Science and Foreign Policy

May 9, 2006

United States
Betts: Hayden Likely to Be Pressed in Confirmation Hearing on Wiretapping Issue

Richard K. Betts, a CFR expert on the intelligence community, says that he sees no reason that the nomination of General Michael V. Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency should be blocked by…

Interview by Bernard Gwertzman and Richard K. Betts

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Norman E. Alexander Family M Foundation Forum on Science and Foreign Policy

Advancing science and technology in an uncertain world    Established in 2024, the Norman E. Alexander Family M Foundation Forum on Science and Foreign Policy is an endowed annual event that ex…

February 24, 2025

RealEcon
The Intellectual Origins of Trump’s Economic Policies

The Trump administration’s tariff announcements revive the age-old policy of import substitution industrialization (ISI) to protect domestic industries and stimulate growth. However, ISI could lead t…

With a portrait of the first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton looking on, U.S. President Donald Trump (L) signs a financial services executive order as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stands by at the Treasury Department in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Article by Roger W. Ferguson Jr. RealEcon

April 5, 2005

Intelligence
Betts: Negroponte Must Assert Leadership as Intelligence Czar Over Pentagon Agencies

Richard K. Betts, the Council’s top expert on intelligence, says the newly named director of national intelligence (DNI), John D. Negroponte, will inherit an espionage bureaucracy that has been “demo…

Interview by Bernard Gwertzman and Richard K. Betts

February 20, 2002

Politics and Government
Testimony of Richard K. Betts Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs - February 7, 2002

Statement for the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Hearings, February 7, 2002 On S. 1867, to Establish a National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States …

Testimony by Richard K. Betts