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January 16, 2025

China
Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Personal Histories, Global Perspectives With Ali Velshi and Edward Wong

Panelists discuss their recently released memoirs, Small Acts of Courage and At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China, highlighting how their personal experiences helped shape their per…

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October 31, 2024

Development
RealEcon Welcomes Assistant Administrator Michael Schiffer to discuss USAID Priorities in the Indo-Pacific

Bilateral development assistance has long been an important tool of American leadership. But today it faces budgetary constraints and a number of potentially conflicting objectives, including promoti…

USAID Roundtable at CFR.

November 25, 2024

United States
CFR Welcomes Michael Horowitz and Prashant Yadav as Senior Fellows

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Michael Horowitz and Prashant Yadav to the David Rockefeller Studies Program, CFR’s in-house think tank. As fellows, they will analyze pre…

January 17, 2025

Foreign Policy
The Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire and its Implications

After the Israel-Hamas cease-fire announcement, Steven A. Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, and I discuss its significance and implications.

Supporters and family members of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, hold lit up torches during a protest ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 16, 2025. Shir Torem/Reuters

January 21, 2025

United States
The World Next Week: Final Episode Live Podcast Taping

Please join us for a live taping of The World Next Week podcast. Hosted by Robert McMahon, Carla Anne Robbins, and their guest co-host, Deborah Amos, this special taping and livestream will serve as …

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January 10, 2025

Foreign Policy
The World Trump Will Inherit

Donald Trump will reenter the White House to face a world racked by historic conflicts and humanitarian crises, but the United States, fueled by its economic strength, remains uniquely poised to infl…

Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a BRICS Plus meeting in Kazan, Russia, October 2024.

December 20, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
What We’re Watching Around the Globe in 2025

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

A man waves the independence-era Syrian flag over Damascus’ central Umayyad Square on December 11, 2024.

April 9, 2024

Ukraine
Russia, Ukraine, and Global Instability, With Michael Kimmage

Michael Kimmage, a history professor at the Catholic University of America and a senior associate with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, s…

Podcast Ukrainian tank-men are seen on a BWP infantry fighting vehicle in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on March 17, 2024.

May 28, 2024

Climate Change
Daughters and Sons Guest Event: From Image to Action—Raising Climate Awareness

Using visual mediums and narratives, an artist and a documentary producer discuss the urgent challenges of climate change and what it will take to solve the climate crisis through science, the power …

Play Fishermen row a boat in the algae filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province in China.

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,…