May 17, 2017
Diplomacy and International InstitutionsI recently hosted a CFR roundtable with Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and chief executive officer of New America to discuss, among other topics, her new book The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies …
November 1, 2019
IrelandIreland's tax authorities have made the job of Ireland's statistical authorities almost impossible. The distortions in the Irish data are now so big that the impact the data for the entire euro are…
October 30, 2019
Election 2020Bill Weld was the first Republican to officially announce he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. Weld knows that his bid faces long odds. Roughly nine out of ten …
October 23, 2019
EuropeThis week’s episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Sebastian Mallaby, CFR’s Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, to discuss the deal that British Prime Minist…
September 27, 2019
ChinaThe Chinese Communist Party faces a host of pressing domestic and international policy challenges as it transitions to a new generation of leaders.
September 10, 2019
Election 2020The Democratic and Republican presidential contenders have begun defining their approach to major foreign policy issues as they jockey for position in their parties’ primaries.
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Mary and David Boies Chair in U.S. Foreign Policy enables CFR to address a current or emerging region or topic of interest by appointing a scholar best positioned to address that issue. Since many of CFR’s endowed positions are narrowly defined, the flexibility of this fellowship is especially valuable.
March 4, 2005
Emerging MarketsI do not expect to consistently agree with the oped page of the Wall Street Journal. But I do not think it is too much to ask that the columnists on oped page of the Journal try to square their argu…
June 25, 2019
NigeriaNigeria and South Africa have been the two African countries of greatest strategic importance to the United States. They are the two largest economies on the continent, and a major venue for U.S. investment. Historically, the United States and Nigeria have cooperated on African issues of mutual concern.
May 10, 2011
DevelopmentISOBEL COLEMAN: Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. I'm Isobel Coleman. I'm a senior fellow here at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the council's Civil Society, Markets, …