September 30, 2019
News ReleaseSeptember 30, 2019—The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes the 2019–20 visiting fellows to the David Rockefeller Studies Program. Selected fellows have the opportunity to broaden their perspe…
June 28, 2013
United StatesWhether NSA leaker Edward Snowden is extradited to the United States will hinge more on diplomatic relations than international legal considerations, says expert Stephen Vladeck.
May 31, 2019
Immigration and MigrationIf the president succeeds, he will be free to slap tariffs on any country or any product at any time for whatever reason he dreams up.
May 21, 2019
TradeInternational trade isn’t the problem—it’s Republican trade policies that have empowered corporations while leaving American workers behind.
April 3, 2018
United StatesCFR's Edward Alden joins James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S. trade policy and the Trump administration's decision to impose tariffs on China.
May 13, 2019
TradeIntroduction It has now been more than a quarter century since the United States, the European Union (EU), Japan and more than 100 other countries came together to conclude the Uruguay Round globa…
April 30, 2019
TradeU.S. president struggling to squeeze tough deal out of Japan.
April 30, 2019
Energy and EnvironmentSenator Edward J. Markey discusses the Green New Deal, a congressional resolution aimed at addressing the issue of climate change.
August 15, 2019
Election 2020As politicians, Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Warren are opposites. He wanted to unleash the power of the market; she wants to curtail its abuses. But for all of their policy differences, the two share…
August 8, 2019
Refugees and Displaced PersonsAccording to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), out of the 1.2 million refugees worldwide that needed resettlement in 2018, only fifty-five thousand were actually resettled—a mere 4.7 percent of the global need. Sub-Saharan Africa hosts twenty-six percent of the world’s refugee population.
