Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

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…

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

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

United States

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Tom Barkin

Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin discusses U.S. monetary policy and the outlook for inflation and labor markets. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. If you wish to attend virtually, log-in information and instructions on how to participate during the question and answer portion will be provided the evening before the event to those who register. Please note the audio, video, and transcript of this hybrid meeting will be posted on the CFR website.

Virtual Event with Tom Barkin and John Lipsky April 1, 2025

United States

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Tom Barkin

Virtual Event with Tom Barkin and John Lipsky April 1, 2025

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September 21, 2023

Iraq

A Conversation With Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani of Iraq

Prime Minister Shia’ al-Sudani discusses Iraq-U.S. relations, Iraq’s foreign policy priorities, and geopolitical and security trends in the region.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at his first regular session of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad, Iraq.

Virtual Event by Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani and Ayman Mohyeldin

March 28, 2025

Middle East and North Africa

U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East. This includes a collection of permanent U.S. bases and vario…

A photo of an aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar

Article by Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow

April 11, 2025

Iran

What Are Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities?

Iran’s nuclear program and missile arsenal have garnered increased international scrutiny amid its flaring conflict with Israel.

A view of the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran, December 2019.

Article by Jonathan Masters, Will Merrow, and Mariel Ferragamo

March 27, 2023

Iraq War

Lessons From History Series: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq—Twenty Years Later

Panelists discuss lessons learned from the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, including the circumstances that led to Operation Iraqi Freedom and whether it was a necessary war, as well as the ramifications…

Residents look at a U.S. soldier from 1/8 Infantry Battalion as they undertake a foot patrol looking for militants, explosives and weapons in a neighborhood in Mosul

Virtual Event by Lisa Anderson, Melvyn P. Leffler, Philip D. Zelikow, and Lara Setrakian Lessons From History

April 11, 2025

Iran

Deal or No Deal (Iran, Not Tariffs)

The type of deal likely to emerge from U.S.-Iran talks tomorrow on Tehran’s nuclear program will depend on what’s changed and what remains the same since the agreement was negotiated during the Barac…

Iranian protesters shout anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans while a military vehicle carries a scale model of Iran-made surface-to-surface missiles during an anti-Israeli protest at Palestine Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 9, 2025.

Article by Michael Froman

March 17, 2023

United States

Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, we are still in this final phase, seeking an elusive consensus about the war’s legacy.