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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,…

February 6, 2025

RealEcon
The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Debacle

An overzealous effort at reforming the U.S. Agency for International Development will dismantle programs that enhance U.S. security, save lives, and boost United States’ image around the globe.

A woman carries a bag of rice from USAID as part of food distributed by various relief agencies in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince.

February 6, 2025

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
America's Disastrous Foreign Aid Withdrawal

The dismantling of USAID erodes the United States’ already limited influence on the continent. 

A notice outside a clinic states that it is unable to provide services until further notice following a USAID notification to pause the program in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 28, 2025.

January 15, 2025

Taiwan
Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense

Differences over Taiwan’s status have fueled rising tensions between the island and mainland. Taiwan is the likeliest potential flash point in U.S.-China relations.

A man watches a news programme about Chinese military drills surrounding Taiwan, on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing on October 14, 2024.

January 28, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China-Russia Relations: January 2025

Russia and China are strengthening their cooperation on AI technology. Although China-Russia imports and exports have reached record levels, growth has slowed significantly compared to 2023. Addition…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in an official welcoming ceremony for delegations' heads at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 23 October 2024.

December 29, 2024

United States
The Legacy of Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away this week at the age of one-hundred, leaves behind a rich and at times confounding foreign policy legacy that eludes any simplistic narrative.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin celebrate the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.

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 31, 2025

United States
The Costs of Trump’s Foreign Policy Disruption

Donald Trump’s embrace of power politics could be costly for the United States.

Trump Enters White House

December 17, 2024

Religion
The Pope and International Relations

Peter Casarella, professor of theology at Duke Divinity School, and Cecilia González-Andrieu, professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, discuss the geopolitical and cultural in…

Play Pope Francis is presented with a colorful cake to celebrate his 88th birthday on a plane.

January 17, 2025

United States
Transition 2025: U.S. Foreign Policy on the Eve of Disruption

Each Friday, I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump has vowed to remake U.S. foreign policy and has assembled a team th…

The U.S. Capitol at night before the 2025 Inauguration