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March 19, 2024

Cybersecurity
New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q4 2023

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between October and December 2023.

Cyber Operations Tracker graphic

March 18, 2024

Japan
The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is widely expected to end yield curve control. But Japanese yields will remain low, and foreign bonds will remain attractive to those Japanese investors who don’t have to hedg…

The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control

March 11, 2024

Climate Change
A Conversation With Amy Pope

Amy Pope discusses her work as director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the UN role in addressing climate mobility, legal frameworks for migration, and the present …

Play Amy Pope, the new Director General of the International Organization of Migration sitting against the backdrop of United Nations logo.

March 8, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: International Women’s Day

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers March 2 to March 8.

Women take part in a demonstration to call for gender equality and demand an end to violence against women to mark International Women's Day in Paris, France, March 8, 2024.

March 8, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
Five Months of War: Where Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. Stand

The death toll from the Israel-Hamas war continues to mount, with no lasting settlement in sight. Meanwhile, concerns about humanitarian catastrophe and regional violence are spreading.

A backlit Israeli army tank moving along the Israeli-Gaza Strip border at sunset

March 8, 2024

Elections and Voting
The Outlook for Women’s Political Leadership in 2024

As a record number of countries hold elections in 2024, panelists reflect on the substantive policy achievements of women political leaders, needed measures to achieve increased women’s leadership, a…

Play European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (L) and US Vice President Kamala Harris (R) smile at each other.

March 4, 2024

Haiti
Haiti’s Troubled Path to Development

Hobbled by foreign interventions, political instability, and natural disasters, the former French colony is paralyzed by multiple crises.

A Haitian girl walks through a garbage-filled ravine in Port-au-Prince.

February 20, 2024

Ukraine
Virtual Media Briefing: The Two-Year Anniversary of the War in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary on February 24, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations discuss the current state of the war, its long-term impact on the international o…

Play Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens a report of a Ukrainian serviceman.

February 14, 2024

United States
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Austan Goolsbee

Austan Goolsbee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago discusses the U.S. economy and monetary policy. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost economic…

Play Austan Goolsbee speaking during a news briefing at the White House in 2011.

February 2, 2024

West Africa
ECOWAS Split Spells Trouble for Democracy in West Africa

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have left the most important West African regional bloc due to escalating tensions over their democratic decline, leaving room for Russia to assert itself in the region…