Council on Foreign Relations

How the U.S. Patrols Its Borders

President Trump sent U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to supplement the work of authorities there. President Biden pledges a new approach as pressures mount along the boundary.

Backgrounder by Amelia Cheatham, Claire Felter and Zachary Laub April 12, 2021

United States

How the U.S. Patrols Its Borders

President Trump sent U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to supplement the work of authorities there. President Biden pledges a new approach as pressures mount along the boundary.

Backgrounder by Amelia Cheatham, Claire Felter and Zachary Laub April 12, 2021

Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines

What Is the World Doing to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines?

Only a year after the new coronavirus emerged, distribution of the first vaccines to protect against it began. But production challenges, vaccine nationalism, and new virus strains are all presenting hurdles.

Backgrounder by Claire Felter June 30, 2021

Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines

What Is the World Doing to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines?

Backgrounder by Claire Felter June 30, 2021

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May 21, 2021

South Korea

Joe Biden’s Summit With South Korea’s Moon Jae-In Poses a Question of Shared Values

The Joe Biden administration has framed its main foreign policy paradigm primarily in terms of competition between democracy and authoritarianism, emphasizing cooperation among like-minded allies as …

South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers remarks before participating in a bilateral meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2021

Blog Post by Scott A. Snyder Asia Unbound

August 1, 2019

Elections and Voting

Joe Biden

CFR invited the presidential candidates challenging President Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their positions on twelve critical foreign policy issues. Candidates’ answers are posted exactly…

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July 22, 2021

Diplomacy and International Institutions

Olympics Kick Off in Tokyo, Biden and Iraq’s Al-Kadhimi Meet, and More

The Tokyo Olympic Games kick off in COVID-19’s shadow, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi visits U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House, and South Africans deal with the fallout from days o…

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Tennis Training - Ariake Tennis Park, Tokyo, Japan.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon The World Next Week

July 1, 2021

Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines

Biden’s Vaccination Goal Nears, UNSC Votes on Syria Aid Pipeline, and More

The deadline for President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of Americans passes, the UN Security Council votes to maintain aid deliveries between Turkey and Syria, and the world marks UFO D…

Internally displaced Syrian children are pictured at a camp, in northern Aleppo near the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria February 17, 2021. Picture taken February 17, 2021.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon The World Next Week

June 17, 2021

Middle East and North Africa

How Sisi Beat Biden’s Human Rights Policy

Egypt is again proving useful to the United States—for now.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reacts after delivering a speech at the Lower House of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, February 29, 2016.

Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

December 23, 2020

Global Governance

Up in the Air: Ten Global Summits That Will Test Joe Biden in 2021

Ten major summits in 2021 will help determine the future of international security, freedom, prosperity, development, health, and indeed of the planet itself.

Two men with surgical masks on stand in front of a large screen showing a virtual APEC Economic Leaders Meeting 2020, which was hosted in Malaysia on November 20, 2020.

Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

July 20, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy

Grading Biden’s Foreign Policy, With Daniel Drezner

Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsa…

U.S. President Joe Biden discusses with journalists at the end of a news conference after the U.S.-Russia summit with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Daniel Drezner The President's Inbox

May 25, 2021

Race and Ethnicity

The Color of COVID After Biden's First 100 Days

A stronger economy can be achieved by placing women, especially women of color, at the center of legislative framework.

Blog Post by Catherine Powell Women Around the World

May 19, 2021

North Korea

Biden’s Policy Review Leaves North Korea Challenge In Limbo

In a speech to a joint session of Congress marking his first hundred days in office last month, U.S. President Joe Biden described his North Korea policy as a combination of “diplomacy, as well as st…

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 6, 2021.

Blog Post by Scott A. Snyder Asia Unbound

June 29, 2021

Transition 2021

TPI Replay: Can Biden Repair America’s Alliances?

Host James M. Lindsay sits down with CFR’s Senior Fellow for Europe, Matthias Matthijs, and Senior Fellow for Japan studies, Sheila A. Smith, to assess the prospects for repairing America’s relations…

US President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) talk at a memorial for the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States after a summit June 14, 2021, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Matthias Matthijs, and Sheila A. Smith The President's Inbox