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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August 21, 2024

Women and Women's Rights

Women’s Power Index

Find out where women around the world wield political power—and why it matters.

Interactive by Linda Robinson and Noël James Women and Foreign Policy Program

June 26, 2024

Iran

The Islamic Republic’s Power Centers

Who calls the shots in Iran on economic policy, security, and domestic calls for reform? A look at the government’s organization chart indicates how complicated the answer is.

Close up of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei giving an address

Article by CFR.org Editors

August 26, 2024

Thailand

Paethongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's New Prime Minister, Demonstrates the Excessive Power of the King and Royalist Elites

Thailand’s new prime minister is a member of the Shinawatra political dynasty.

Woman wears white military uniform while standing at a podium addressing an audience.

Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick and Pavin Chachavalongpun Asia Unbound

June 12, 2024

Military Operations

Sea Power: The U.S. Navy and Foreign Policy

The U.S. Navy’s dominance of the world’s oceans has made it an indispensable foreign policy tool and a guarantor of global trade, but a mix of challenges is raising difficult questions about its futu…

Ships from Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 sail in formation in the Mediterranean Sea.

Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters

July 16, 2024

Venezuela

Will Maduro Hold on to Power in Venezuela’s 2024 Election?

The closely watched elections on July 28 will determine whether incumbent President Nicolás Maduro wins a third term or allows a democratic transition.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro addresses the media after signing an agreement to recognize the results of the election.

Expert Brief by Shannon K. O'Neil and Julia Huesa Latin America Studies Program

November 14, 2023

Diplomacy and International Institutions

The APEC Summit, With Matthew Goodman

Matthew Goodman, a distinguished fellow for global economic policy and director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the upcoming Asia-Pa…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Treasurer of Australia Jim Chalmers in a bilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco, California on November 12, 2023.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Matthew P. Goodman The President’s Inbox

May 7, 2024

Women and Foreign Policy Program

Virtual Roundtable: The Transformative Power of Girls’ Education

Image of Ann Norris, Kakenya Ntaiya, and Jennifer O'Donoghue

Virtual Event by Kakenya Ntaiya, Jennifer O'Donoghue, and Ann Norris Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 31, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Laws of War, With Matthew Waxman

Matthew Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at CFR and the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the laws of warfare …

An Israeli armored personnel carrier near the Gaza-Israel border on October 31, 2023.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Matthew C. Waxman The President’s Inbox

June 17, 2024

Asia

CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Lost Decade—The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power

Lost Decade is an essential guide for understanding the historic shift to Asia-centric geopolitics and its implications for the United States’ present and future. More than a decade on, Robert D. …

A 100 yuan banknote is placed beside a U.S. 100 dollar banknote.

Virtual Event by Robert D. Blackwill, Richard H. Fontaine Jr., and James M. Lindsay CFR Fellows’ Book Launch

May 15, 2024

China

Power and Financial Interdependence

My new paper for the Geoeconomics and Geofinance Initiative of the Institute Français des Relations Internationals’ (IFRI) explores the history of the Sino-American financial relationship.