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November 19, 2024

United States
Gary J. Bass Wins the 2024 Arthur Ross Book Award for “Judgment at Tokyo” 

Gary J. Bass has won the 2024 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award for Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Knopf), an examination of the trial…

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October 11, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Highly Restrictive Six-Week Abortion Ban

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers October 5 to October 11.

Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Highly Restrictive Six-Week Abortion Ban
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

May 2, 2024

Censorship and Freedom of Expression
World Press Freedom Day 2024: Mounting Threats, Renewed Purpose

In this special episode to mark World Press Freedom Day, Jeffrey Gedmin, cofounder and editor-in-chief of American Purpose and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, joins Robert McMaho…

Podcast Stock photo of a war journalist with digital camera in action.
Podcast by Robert McMahon, Carla Anne Robbins, and Jeffrey Gedmin The World Next Week

April 11, 2024

Climate Change
Screening and Discussion of PBS Series "Changing Planet: Coral Special"

The PBS series Changing Planet embarks on its third year of this seven-year project examining the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ecosystems. The “Coral Special” episode takes us to the Ma…

Play An aerial view of Male island, Maldives
Event by Gillian Caldwell, Monica P. Medina, M. Sanjayan, Jennifer Koss, Paula A. Kerger, and Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed

May 3, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: May 3, 2024

NETmunidal+10 conference held; FCC fines phone carriers; U.S. announces HIPAA amendment; EU police release statement opposing encryption; WhatsApp threatens to leave India.

Britain's computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee attends the NETmundial: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance opening ceremony in Sao Paulo April 23, 2014.
Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

November 24, 2020

Brazil
A Climate Bomb in the Amazon

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, threatening the world’s largest repository of biodiversity. If the fires are not controlled soon, they could release a “climate bomb” of stored carbon that would acce…

Podcast The outline of a man standing in front of a forest fire
Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra Why It Matters

May 11, 2018

Economics
World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends.

Play A woman welds a table at Xuan Hoa furniture factory in Xuan Hoa town
Event by Monica B. de Bolle, Greg Ip, Vincent Reinhart, and Sebastian Mallaby World Economic Update

October 2, 2024

Israel
Virtual Media Briefing: Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East a Year After the Hamas Attack

CFR experts discuss developments in the Middle East a year after the October 7 attacks in Israel. LABOTT: Thank you very much. And thank you to everyone for joining this media briefing. I’m Elise …

Play Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon's Hezbollah, in Sanaa, Yemen
Virtual Event by Elliott Abrams, Steven A. Cook, Farah Pandith, Ray Takeyh, and Elise Labott Middle East Program