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 New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

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 change.

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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About CFR

Friedman Family Foundation Strategic Innovation Fund

This endowed fund was established in 2017 by Stephen Friedman and the Friedman Family Foundation to serve as a bridge to support scholar-practitioners when they initially join CFR or when they shift to a new area of research.

October 5, 2023

Israel

The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel. The resulting conflict sparked an Arab oil embargo, a superpower confrontation, a global recessio…

Virtual Event by Ehud Barak, Dorit Beinisch, Nabil Fahmy, Thomas L. Friedman, Richard Haass, Tamir Hayman, Henry A. Kissinger, William B. Quandt, Itamar Rabinovich, Khalil Shikaki, Manuel Trajtenberg, Martin S. Indyk, Elise Labott, Andrea Mitchell, Carla Anne Robbins, and Gideon Rose Middle East Program

February 12, 2024

Palestinian Territories

Democracy and the Two-State Solution

The war in Gaza has focused attention once again on the search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution favored by the United States, the European Union, most of the world’s de…

Article by Elliott Abrams Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

March 2, 2011

Peacekeeping

The Case for UN Peacekeeping

UN peacekeeping is a crucial U.S. partner in maintaining stability, but the Obama administration must take a more vigorous role in promoting it or risk losing support in Congress, write CFR’s Micah Z…

Expert Brief by Micah Zenko and Rebecca R. Friedman

February 11, 2009

Israel

Israel’s Political System

A brief overview of the Israeli political system.

Backgrounder by Eben Kaplan and Caroline Friedman

September 28, 2007

Iraq

The Iraq Data Debate: Civilian Casualties from 2006 to 2007

Gen. David Petraeus’ assertions about falling casualties in Iraq are supported by a range of objective sources. But his testimony to Congress does not establish whether the decline is attributable to…

Backgrounder by Stephen Biddle and Jeffrey Friedman