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

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve discusses the challenges facing U.S. economic recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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September 23, 2024

United States

A Conversation With General CQ Brown, Jr.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, Jr. reflects on his first year as chairman and discusses his vision for the joint forces over the coming years. For those attending virtually, …

U.S. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. foregrounds a United States flag at a press conference in Ramstein, Germany.

Virtual Event by CQ Brown, Jr. and Michael Froman David A. Morse Lecture

August 12, 2024

Japan

Miura Mari: The Fight for Gender Parity

Miura Mari, a professor of political science at Sophia University, helps build a path to gender parity in Japanese politics.

Miura Mari speaks at Academy for Gender Parity event

Blog Post by Sheila A. Smith Asia Unbound

September 16, 2024

United States

CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Reagan—His Life and Legend by Max Boot

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in…

President Ronald Reagan at Republican convention Rally in 1982.

Virtual Event by Max Boot and James M. Lindsay

September 17, 2024

United States

CFR Welcomes Acclaimed Historian Timothy Snyder as a Senior Fellow for Democracy

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Timothy Snyder as a senior fellow for democracy. At CFR, Snyder will play a key role in the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future o…

News Releases

September 6, 2024

United States

Why Biden Wants to Block the Nippon-U.S. Steel Deal

U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to block the Japanese takeover of U.S. Steel, raising questions about the administration’s economic and foreign policy priorities.

In Brief by Noah Berman

May 30, 2023

Drug Policy

The Fentanyl Epidemic, With Vanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to …

A used needle sits on the ground in a park.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Vanda Felbab-Brown The President’s Inbox

August 18, 2019

Elections and Voting

Steve Bullock

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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