March 18, 2020
News ReleaseThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and CFR’s Think Global Health website offer resources on the coronavirus pandemic, including background and expert analysis. Find all of CFR’s coronavirus-re…
February 13, 2018
United States“Nobody really knew what to expect when Donald Trump became U.S. president. Would he disrupt the status quo or maintain it? Blow himself up or escape unscathed? One year in, the answer is yes,” write…
January 2, 2018
South KoreaJanuary 2, 2018—“South Korea’s only viable strategic option for the foreseeable future is continued cultivation and strengthening of the alliance with the United States,” argues Scott A. Snyder in So…
June 2, 2016
South AfricaJohn Campbell argues in Morning in South Africa that despite South Africa’s currentpolitical and economic malaise, there are grounds for optimism about the country’sdemocratic future.
November 17, 2010
Nigeria“Governance, let alone democracy, faces grievous, structural challenges in Nigeria,” says Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellow and Former Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell in his n…
February 25, 2016
ChinaIn light of China’s deepening economic slowdown, “China’s foreign policy may well be driven increasingly by the risk of domestic political instability,” write Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger …
January 7, 2013
NigeriaCFR’s Africa program has launched the Nigeria Security Tracker, an online tool that uses interactive maps and graphs to depict the magnitude and geographic distribution of violence in the oil-rich We…
January 6, 2011
United StatesThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched several new blogs authored by CFR experts on U.S. foreign policy, politics and security in Africa, energy and the environment, and the Middle East…
May 26, 2015
AsiaJapan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their common interests, shared values, and geograph…
November 19, 2014
NigeriaThe militant Islamist group Boko Haram’s increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Christian viole…