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

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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

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 20, 2008

The US, Abu Dhabi and Singapore Get in a Room…

Rachel ZiembaThis post is by Rachel Ziemba filling in for Brad Setser. The move towards a voluntary code of conduct for sovereign wealth funds took on new momentum today (see the previous developme…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

May 29, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

Oil and National Security: U.S.-Middle East Relations

Steven Cook discusses the modern history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and how economic interests, including secure access to oil reserves, continue to influence U.S. priorities in the regio…

Virtual Event by Steven A. Cook and Helima Croft

July 7, 2007

Emerging Markets

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority secrets revealed …

Thanks to Henny Sender of the Wall Street Journal. One reason why the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has gotten so big so fast is that it had (and still has) a lot of money invested in emer…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 17, 2024

Iran

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Conceived as the principal defenders of the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has evolved into an institution with vast political, economic, and military power.

Members of the Revolutionary Guards attend a parliamentary session in Tehran.

Backgrounder by CFR.org Editors

August 7, 2008

Financial Markets

Abu Dhabi wants to make airplanes ... and it has a sovereign fund available to help make it happen

Airbus is looking to source more parts (and produce more) in the dollar zone. Selling a product denominated in dollars with a euro cost structure isn’t currently a recipe for enormous profits. Chi…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

February 22, 2024

Ukraine

Grim Ukraine War Anniversary, WTO in Limbo, Blinken’s Lula and Milei Tour, and More

Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion; the World Trade Organization (WTO) holds its thirteenth ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi amid deep uncertainty about progress…