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 December 5, 2023 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 December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Myanmar

Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict

The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland January 31, 2022

Myanmar

Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict

The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland January 31, 2022

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

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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March 24, 2016

Trade

Economics in a Time of Political Instability

This article was co-authored with David Brady, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. MILAN/STANFORD – Over the last …

Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

June 22, 2018

Cybersecurity

Cyber Week in Review: June 22, 2018

This week: concerns about EU copyright reform, the taboo of using cyber weapons, Joshua Schulte gets indicted.

Blog Post by Adam Segal Net Politics

May 3, 2011

Americas

McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: Sovereign Debt Restructuring in Europe: Lessons From Latin America

The McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics is presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Event by William R. Rhodes, Ernesto Ponce de León Zedillo, and Adam Lerrick McKinsey Executive Roundtable

May 3, 2011

Americas

Sovereign Debt Restructuring in Europe: Lessons from Latin America

Experts discuss the current state of European sovereign debt restructuring, as well as the economic lessons Latin America has to offer. This event was part of the McKinsey Executive Roundtable ser…

Event

May 13, 2020

Women and Women's Rights

Ambassadors for Gender Equality: Who They Are, What They Do, and Why They Matter

Since the United States appointed the first-ever Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues in 2009, ten more countries have followed, creating new posts focused on women's rights and gender equal…

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women and Foreign Policy Program