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 and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 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 and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 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

United States

Beijing+30: The Global Status of Women

As member states convene for the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, please join us for a dialogue on th…

Event with Susana Malcorra, Rachel B. Vogelstein and Linda Robinson March 13, 2025

United States

Beijing+30: The Global Status of Women

Event with Susana Malcorra, Rachel B. Vogelstein and Linda Robinson March 13, 2025

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March 7, 2025

United States

Russia’s Peace Demands on Ukraine Have Not Budged

Some recent favorable White House moves toward Russia have appeared to signal a belief that Moscow is ready for constructive talks on ending the war in Ukraine. But there’s slim chance of Russian con…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump meet during the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2018.

Expert Brief by Thomas Graham

February 27, 2025

United States

The President’s Inbox Recap: Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine

Trump is looking to negotiate directly with Moscow to secure a peace deal on Ukraine.

Post by Oscar Berry The Water's Edge

February 21, 2025

Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security

CFR Receives Major Grant to Launch Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is proud to announce a generous donation from the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation to expand CFR’s work to identify pathways to prevent, mitigate, and end co…

News Releases

February 25, 2025

Ukraine

Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, With Liana Fix and Charles A. Kupchan

Liana Fix, CFR fellow for Europe, and Charles A. Kupchan, CFR senior fellow and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sit down with James M. Lindsay on the third anniversary of…

Donald Trump stands behind Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Liana Fix, and Charles A. Kupchan The President’s Inbox

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…

Virtual Event by Ali Velshi, Edward Wong, Carla Anne Robbins, and Michael Froman

May 16, 2024

United States

Strength Through Cooperation: A Conversation With Bipartisan Leaders of the House Armed Services Committee

Bipartisan leaders of the House Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member Adam Smith (D) and Vice Chairman Rob Wittman (R), discuss the interconnected nature of U.S. military support abroad and the im…

House Armed Services Committee gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. in 2023.

Event by Adam Smith, Robert J. Wittman, and Missy Ryan

February 14, 2025

Ukraine

Ukraine, NATO, and War Termination

The United States has an unquestionable interest in ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Equally imperative, argue Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Eric Ciaramella and Eric Green, is safeguardi…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte shake hands during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Report by Eric Ciaramella and Eric Green Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security

November 6, 2024

Election 2024

Trump’s Tall Task: Overcoming Domestic Division to Project Strength Abroad

President-Elect Donald Trump needs to play a leading role in steering the world away from ongoing violence and the potential fragmentation of the global economy, but a purposeful foreign policy requi…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in New York City in September 2024.

Expert Brief by Charles A. Kupchan U.S. Foreign Policy Program

March 10, 2025

United States

Navigating the Gray Zone—Strategies to Address Hybrid Warfare

Panelists discuss the rising threat of hybrid warfare, exploring the tactics used by hostile states, and effective strategies to counter these covert attacks. **This is a virtual meeting through Z…

The experimental quiet supersonic aircraft X-59 is seen parked on tarmac in Palmdale

Virtual Event by James Appathurai, Max Boot, Linda S. Lourie, and Christopher Isham

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.

Article by Michael Froman