Bilateral development assistance has long been an important tool of American leadership. But today it faces budgetary constraints and a number of potentially conflicting objectives, including promoti…

After the Israel-Hamas cease-fire announcement, Steven A. Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, and I discuss its significance and implications.

Donald Trump will reenter the White House to face a world racked by historic conflicts and humanitarian crises, but the United States, fueled by its economic strength, remains uniquely poised to infl…

CFR fellows weigh in on the global reaction to the release of Chinese AI model DeepSeek and what it means for U.S.-China competition.

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

A dispatch from the fifty-forth annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the focus this year is on the presence of emerging economies—from Brazil to Indonesia—while the political and …

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.