October 16, 2019
TurkeyThe latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Henri Barkey, CFR’s adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies, and Steven Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Midd…
December 3, 2019
SyriaThe Kurds have no choice but to always trust the United States—and to suffer the inevitable consequences.
January 3, 2013
Rule of LawEmerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Amanda Richardson, an attorn…
October 15, 2019
SyriaHenri J. Barkey and Steven A. Cook sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria, the Turkish incursion, and the response from others in the region. Barke…
October 18, 2019
West AfricaSeveral successive years of being one of the world’s fastest-growing economies have made Côte d'Ivoire a darling of investors bullish about Africa. But the country’s strong economic performance has not been matched by political progress in overcoming the divides that drove the country into civil war twice in the last twenty years. With elections scheduled for 2020, many of the same antagonists that featured in those earlier conflicts are jockeying for position, giving observers and citizens an unwelcome sense of déjà vu.
May 26, 2011
ChinaChinese President Jiang Zemin talks to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at a luncheon address to U.S. business groups in New York October 23, 1995. (Jim Bourg / Courtesy Reuters) A mon…
October 11, 2019
United StatesThe U.S. Navy turns 244 years-old this weekend. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with …
October 24, 2007
TradePlease join Secretary Paulson for remarks in advance of his trip to India, with an emphasis on India’s rise as an important player on the global economic stage.The Secretary’s remarks will be followe…
September 3, 2019
United StatesThis is a guest post by Brian Myers, a graduate student at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. While the U.S.-China trade war has cast a pall over the previous rosy outlook for g…
August 27, 2019
North KoreaSummer 2019 has been a watershed moment for trends that threaten to compromise South Korea’s position in Northeast Asia.