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 Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

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

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

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 chan…

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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May 21, 2024

Defense and Security

America’s New Cold Wars, With David Sanger

David Sanger, the White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the post-Cold War ended and why the new era of geopolitical ri…

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing, China, on May 16, 2024.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and David E. Sanger The President’s Inbox

April 1, 2024

Brazil

Brazil Should Use G20 Momentum to Join the OECD

Brazil has an opportunity to become a powerful bridge between developed economies and the Global South—the United States should support that ambition.

U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold hands as they attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023.

Article by Heidi Crebo-Rediker Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

January 9, 2024

Taiwan

Taiwan’s Presidential Election, With David Sacks

David Sacks, a fellow for Asia studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the potential geopolitical consequences of Taiwan’s presidential race.

(A couple pose with a Taiwanese flag on October 09, 2023 in New Taipei City, Taiwan.)

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and David Sacks The President’s Inbox

September 26, 2023

Diplomacy and International Institutions

David A. Morse Lecture With Ajay Banga

On the eve of his first annual meeting, World Bank president Ajay Banga discusses the bank’s ambitious roadmap at a time it is being called to lead the world in addressing intertwined challenges of p…

Virtual Event by Ajay Banga and Michael Froman David A. Morse Lecture

September 7, 2023

G20 (Group of Twenty)

G20 Summit Preview

CFR experts discuss the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) Summit beginning on September 9 in New Delhi.

Sign of letters spelling G20 on a major road

Virtual Event by Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, and Michael Froman Media Briefings

October 25, 2023

South Korea

Trilateral Security Cooperation: Implementing the Spirit of Camp David

On August 18, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met at Camp David for the first stand-alone trilateral U.S.-South Korea-J…

Workshop panelists sit at a table in front of CFR screens

Event by Sheila A. Smith, Scott A. Snyder, Sang Hyun Lee, Jaechun Kim, Komei Isozaki, and Andrew I. Yeo Asia Program

October 11, 2023

G20 (Group of Twenty)

What Does the G20 Do?

The Group of Twenty, an informal gathering of many of the world’s largest economies, is the premier global forum for discussing economic issues. But it has faced divisions over trade, climate change,…

World leaders sit around a circular table at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India.

Backgrounder by James McBride, Anshu Siripurapu, and Noah Berman

March 21, 2023

Global

A Conversation With David Malpass

World Bank President David Malpass discusses the overlapping challenges facing developing countries and opportunities for action.

Virtual Event by David R. Malpass and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera

May 20, 2024

Middle East Program

Virtual Media Briefing: Iran After Raisi and New ICC Charges

CFR experts discuss the implications of the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, new International Criminal Court charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leadership, and other updates from …

Outside the Iranian embassy in Baghdad after the deaths of Raisi and others

Virtual Event by Steven A. Cook, David J. Scheffer, Ray Takeyh, and Carla Anne Robbins Middle East Program