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February 11, 2025

United States
CFR Task Force Report: Securing Space—A Plan for U.S. Action

In its new report, Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action, the CFR Task Force on Space Management Policy analyzes the challenges in low Earth orbit, where the acceleration in human space activity is …

NASA handout of astronaut Hopkins, participating in the second of two spacewalks

January 7, 2025

Immigration and Migration
New CFR Book Examines the Effects of COVID Border Closures

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, “governments across the world responded with a bewildering array of different policies to deal with what was appropriately called a ‘novel’ virus,…

January 31, 2025

Ukraine
A Series of New CFR Reports Outline How to End the War in Ukraine

In a new collection of reports from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), authors Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Liana Fix, Thomas Graham, Michael O’Hanlon, and Paul B. Stares provide expert recommendations …

January 27, 2025

United States
Former Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Joins CFR as Distinguished Fellow 

Today, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced that Gina Raimondo—the former U.S. secretary of commerce and governor of Rhode Island—will join CFR, based in its Washington, DC, office, as a …

January 13, 2025

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: When the World Closed Its Doors

In When the World Closed Its Doors:The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders, Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman tell the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond…

Play A health worker scans a resident with an infrared thermometer to check her temperature as a precautionary measure against the spread of Covid-19 in New Delhi, India.

January 10, 2025

United States
CFR Welcomes Aimee Carter and Matt Quam as Vice Presidents

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Aimee Carter and Matt Quam to lead corporate relations and development efforts, respectively.  Carter returned to CFR on January 6 as v…

November 20, 2024

United States
Young Professionals Briefing With CFR Military Fellows

CFR Military Fellows discuss ways their respective branches are meeting the challenges of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, climate change, and an evolving global threat landscape. …

Play CFR's 2024-2025 Military Fellow cohort Nathan M. Colvin, Thomas P. O’Donnell, Tina J. Peña, Todd E. Randolph, and Wilfred Rivera pictured in front of CFR's New York office.

January 7, 2025

Foreign Policy
Middle East Conflict, Russia-Ukraine War, and U.S. Southern Border Are Top Global Concerns for 2025, CFR Report Finds

The second Donald Trump administration assumes office at a moment of great peril for the United States, according to the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) annual Preventive Priorities Survey. The r…

November 8, 2024

United States
Transition 2025: Donald Trump Won the Presidency. Now He Needs to Staff His Administration

Each Friday, I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Presidential transitions are complicated affairs, especially when power passes f…

Trump Delivers Election Victory Speech on Wednesday Morning, November 6

December 12, 2024

China
New CFR Report Outlines Strategies to Counter China-Russia Influence

In a partnership bordering on alliance, “Russia and China have been clear about the world they seek,” asserts a new Council Special Report, No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign P…