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June 10, 2025

Women and Foreign Policy Program
In-Person DC Roundtable: Advancing Women’s Political Representation and Democracy

Progress for women’s political leadership is stagnating around the world, alongside global democracy decline. In 2024, in the year of elections, only five women out of thirty-one presidential electio…

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June 6, 2025

Europe
Growing Conflict and Uncertain Alliances: On the Future of European Security

On the eighty-first anniversary of D-Day, CFR President Michael Froman and senior fellows discuss the Trump administration’s diminished appetite for engagement in European security affairs—even as th…

A satellite image shows destroyed TU 95 aircrafts in the aftermath of a drone strike at the Belaya air base, Irkutsk region, Russia, June 4, 2025,

May 23, 2025

Foreign Policy
The Armed Forces of the Future

The future of defense strategy requires restructuring forces for modern threats, focusing deployments on critical regions, accelerating tech integration, reforming procurement and budgets, revitalizi…

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defense shield next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 20, 2025.

June 3, 2025

Ukraine
Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web Shows Future of Drone Warfare

Ukraine said it had used 117 drones to target airfields deep in Russian territory. The daring attack demonstrated low-cost precision strikes accessible to almost any state or militant group.

The silhouettes of two soldiers hold a drone between them. They are surrounded by greenery and there is a blue sky behind them.

May 20, 2025

United States
The Future of Alliances: Burden Sharing and Credibility of Commitments

The heads of three foreign policy think tanks discuss whether alliances can withstand shifts in U.S. policy, how major allies are adapting their foreign and defense strategies, and what new coalition…

Play Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France's President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk all sit behind a phone on a table during a call with U.S. President Donald Trump.

May 22, 2025

South Korea
South Korea’s Democracy Remains Vulnerable

Democratic institutions eventually prevailed in impeaching and removing a president who employed an undemocratic tool.

People gather as they wait for the Constitutional Court ruling

May 16, 2025

Europe
U.S. Allies Rally to Support Democracy and Come to Terms With a New U.S. Foreign Policy

Two things emerged clearly from this week’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit, the eighth annual gathering convened by Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas looks on as she speaks at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit

May 20, 2025

Ukraine
Trump’s Putin Call Indicates Ukraine’s Future Is Up to Europe

President Trump suggested after the call that the United States could “back away” if Russia and Ukraine peace talks don’t advance. That could leave it to Europe to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Voloydmyr Zelenskyy, Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk walk side by side on the grounds of Mariynsky Palace in Kyiv.

April 10, 2025

United States
Media Briefing: Trump's Tariffs and the Future of the Global Economy

CFR experts provide insights and context around President Donald Trump’s recent enactment of tariffs, global reactions, and what his plans mean for the future of the global economy.   

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March 6, 2025

Ukraine
Securing Ukraine's Future

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, the international context is changing rapidly, including the prospects for a negotiated settlement. Much is at stake, and it is essential that the challe…

Play The American and Ukrainian flags wave next to each during an Independence Day parade in Washington D.C., U.S.