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February 9, 2009
Venezuela
Venezuela’s Oil-Based Economy
Venezuela is trying to develop new markets for its oil at a time of increasing friction with its main customer, the United States. But a significant short-term shift in oil relations between Venezuel…
June 30, 2020
Middle East and North Africa
Can Syria’s Assad Regime Survive a New Wave of Threats?
New U.S. sanctions under the Caesar Act could compound the economic turmoil threatening to undo the Assad regime.
December 28, 2022
2022 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2022
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
June 14, 2022
United States
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Army!
The U.S. Army turns 247 years old today.
January 5, 2021
News Release
The Council on Foreign Relations Marks Its One Hundredth Anniversary
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the country’s most prestigious organization devoted to international relations and foreign policy, marks its one hundredth anniversary this year. Founded in 19…
May 13, 2019
Authoritarianism
An Inside Look at Political Imprisonment
Panelists discuss the use of imprisonment and torture as political tools of authoritarian regimes, including their experiences with political imprisonment in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria, and their …
January 3, 2020
Iran
America Must Be Ready For Iranian Retaliation
The assassination of Qassem Suleimani may have been legally justifiable but was not strategically prudent.
May 10, 2013
Global
Investment Treaties: Winners and Losers
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin professor of international law at New York University School of Law, discusses the growth and distributional effects and the human rights implications of global e…
April 29, 2011
Economics
Mexico’s Unfinished Congressional Business
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies debate the immunity of fellow congressman Julio Cesar Godoy (Stringer / Courtesy Reuters). Mexicans briefly got their hopes —and some their hackles— up this week as Cong…
June 8, 2015
Mexico
Mexico’s Midterm Elections
Yesterday, Mexicans headed to the polls to vote for 500 federal deputies, 17 state legislatures, 9 governors, and more than 300 mayors. Corruption and security dominated many local discussions. And b…
