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March 4, 2015

United States
Top Ten Vietnam War Movies

The Water's Edge picks for the best films about the Vietnam War. 

Vietnam-War-Films

January 28, 2015

China
Ariella Rotenberg: National Anti-Smoking Regulation in China—Can it Succeed?

Ariella Rotenberg is a research associate for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. In mid-December, Chinese state media reported that the Legislative Affairs Office of the State …

Cigarettes_China

June 18, 2014

More Books to Read This Summer

Last week, Bob McMahon, Gideon Rose, and I offered up our summer reading suggestions on The World Next Week podcast. India Adams and her colleagues on the CFR Library staff were not to be outdone. Th…

Summer-Reading-Library-Book

January 17, 2014

Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: NSA Reforms, CIA Drone Strikes, and Benghazi

“Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28: Signals Intelligence Activities,” White House, January 17, 2014. When the United States collects nonpublicly available signals intelligence in bulk, it shall u…

Obama NSA speech

October 31, 2012

China
Why Haven’t Chinese Leaders Acted Decisively to Reduce Tobacco Use?

In mid-October, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev voiced support for a proposed ban on smoking in public places by 2015. “The government is not at war with smokers,” he said, “but we are making …

A visitor dressed as a Red Army soldier smokes as he poses for a picture in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province on September 20, 2012. (Carlos Barria / Courtesy Reuters)