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June 22, 2020

Saudi Arabia
Just How Important Is the Rift Between Qatar and the Saudi Arabia-led Quartet?

Amir Asmar is a Department of Defense analyst and CFR’s national intelligence fellow. Throughout his intelligence career, his primary area of focus has been the Middle East. He held a wide range of a…

Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off a plane at an air base in Qatar, on October 24, 2017.
Blog Post by Amir Asmar and Gabriela Hasaj Strength Through Peace

June 8, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Gender Representation and Diversity in the Foreign Affairs Community

Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte and Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley joined the Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion on the importance of diversity in the foreign affairs community.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is surrounded as she bids farewell to a lobby filled with employees after her last day at the State Department in Washington, January 16, 2009.
Blog Post by Caroline Bettinger-Lopez and Rebecca Turkington Women Around the World

June 25, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Abortion in the Time of COVID-19

Responses to COVID-19 mean women and girls are now more likely to face challenges accessing quality reproductive health care, especially in rural or marginalized communities.

A demonstrator wearing a face mask holds a placard that reads "Legal Abortion Now", on the 5th anniversary of the "Ni Una Menos" movement, in Buenos Aires, Argentina June 3, 2020.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

March 19, 2020

Oil and Petroleum Products
Oil Price War: Is U.S. Shale The First To Blink?

As the oil price war continues, markets are hanging on every word coming from Washington, Moscow and Riyadh, amid signs that diplomacy could be afoot. A statement by the Kremlin’s presidential spokes…

Sarah Mandel (R) of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and representing the organization Food and Water Watch, holds a banner as she takes part in a small anti-fracking protest in front of the White House in Washington November 3, 2015. Thanks to the fracking boom that has helped boost U.S. oil production 80 percent since 2008 and slashed the country's crude imports, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is brimming. The world's largest supply of government-owned emergency oil holds 695 million barrels, the equivale
Blog Post by Amy M. Jaffe and Gabriela Hasaj Energy Realpolitik

March 16, 2015

Human Rights
Kafka in Paradise: Maldives Court Sentences Former President for Terrorism

On March 13, a Maldivian court found Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, guilty of terrorism and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison. The specific act …

March 10, 2014. Photo by Dying Regime licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped from original.
Blog Post by Alyssa Ayres Asia Unbound