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March 3, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Friedman’s List: What It May Mean Below the Sahara

A youth wearing a shirt of U.S. President Barack Obama stands in a crowd waiting for food distribution at Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, August 24, 2010. (Finbarr O'Reill…

Friedman’s List: What It May Mean Below the Sahara
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

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Friedman Family Foundation Strategic Innovation Fund

This endowed fund was established in 2017 by Stephen Friedman and the Friedman Family Foundation to serve as a bridge to support scholar-practitioners when they initially join CFR or when they shift to a new area of research.

October 5, 2023

Israel
The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel. The resulting conflict sparked an Arab oil embargo, a superpower confrontation, a global recessio…

Yom Kippur War
Virtual Event by Ehud Barak, Dorit Beinisch, Nabil Fahmy, Thomas L. Friedman, Richard Haass, Tamir Hayman, Henry A. Kissinger, William B. Quandt, Itamar Rabinovich, Khalil Shikaki, Manuel Trajtenberg, Martin S. Indyk, Elise Labott, Andrea Mitchell, Carla Anne Robbins, and Gideon Rose Middle East Program

February 12, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israel-Hamas War: Regional Escalation and U.S. Strategy

Panelists discuss the regional escalation of the Israel-Hamas war, developments in flashpoints including in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, attacks on U.S. forces and the consequences for U…

Play 3 boats of the Yemeni Coast Guard affiliated with the Houthi group patrol the Red sea while displaying Yemeni and Palestinian flags.
Virtual Event by Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Jon B. Alterman, Gregory D. Johnsen, and Kimberly Dozier Middle East Program

March 16, 2010

United Kingdom
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) (aka, PIRA, "the provos," Óglaigh na hÉireann) (UK separatists)

The provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA, is an outgrowth of an older group known as the Irish Republican Army, which fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole …

Backgrounder by Kathryn Gregory

August 27, 2009

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)

An overview of Peruvian terrorist groups, Shining Path and Tupac Amaru.

Backgrounder by Kathryn Gregory