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June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound chan…

March 8, 2024

Colombia
From Peril to Partnership

Paul J. Angelo provides the first headlining case studies of Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative.

February 1, 2024

Economics
Global Trade Tracker

The CFR Global Trade Tracker allows you to gauge trends in international trade through time. The map below compiles trade data from 178 countries as reported to the International Monetary Fund (IM…

January 2, 2024

Radicalization and Extremism
God, Guns, and Sedition

A riveting exploration of the current state of far-right terrorism in the United States—and recommendations to stop its rise.

December 5, 2023

South Korea
The United States–South Korea Alliance

The alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. Yet it now faces challenges from within. Domestic pol…

November 6, 2023

China
Tracking China’s Control of Overseas Ports

This interactive map tracks China’s growing maritime influence through investments in strategic overseas ports. Users can plot the location of each port and view satellite images alongside detailed i…

A massive, loaded container ship being tugged from a shipyard.

October 17, 2023

Central Africa
The Lumumba Plot

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo.

October 3, 2023

Russia
Getting Russia Right

Thomas Graham offers a practical vision of U.S.-Russia relations.