Knox Thames, special advisor for religious minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State, marks the twentieth anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act with a discussion on the State Department's Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, as part of CFR’s Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

As tens of thousands of migrants from all over Central America, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, have arrived in the United States in recent years trying to escape violence in their home countr…

Council on Foreign Relations 2/7/2018 Academic Conference Call on U.S. National Security Under the Trump Administration with John O. Brennan

As the financial crisis in the U.S. begins to seep into sectors domestically and ripples overseas to European markets, the reaction and situation in Asia is somewhat curious.

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch, and worries about the fate of AIG and other financial institutions have thrown the world markets into disarray, and raised serious questi…