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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 24, 2024
Ukraine
Weapons of War: The Race Between Russia and Ukraine
The new U.S. aid package will reestablish a critical flow of weapons to Ukraine’s military, but the war will hinge greatly on which side can ramp up and sustain its firepower and troop numbers in the…
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Mobilizing New Funds for Development and Climate Finance
The transition to clean energy fundamentally requires access to finance, as clean energy sources substitute capital for the use of fossil fuels. Private finance—cross border finance that is—is curren…
March 8, 2024
Latin America
New CFR Book Assesses Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Security Assistance Programs for Colombia and Mexico
“For the United States, Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative were each a means to an end: a reduction in drug trafficking, the stabilization of volatile and violent neighbors, and the defense of d…
October 5, 2023
United States
Why New York Is Experiencing a Migrant Crisis
The arrival of more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers in New York City and other major U.S. cities over the past year has sparked renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy.
December 6, 2023
South Korea
U.S.-South Korea Alliance Must Not Fail, Warns Scott Snyder in New Book
“[T]he U.S.-South Korea alliance faces significant risks and dangers in the event that both countries were to elect nationalist America-First and Korea-first leaders,” Scott A. Snyder contends in his…
April 9, 2024
Defense and Security
Series on Emerging Technology, U.S. Foreign Policy, and World Order: Frontline Innovations—Defense Solutions for National Security Challenges
Panelists discuss new and emerging commercial defense technology, current opportunities and challenges in defense innovation, and the future landscape of national security. For those attending vir…
January 16, 2024
United States
Tough New Immigration Rules Risk Empowering the Cartels
Tight restrictions on asylum and parole will drive migration further underground, where criminal groups profit.
January 10, 2024
Somalia
New Deals Open Old Wounds in the Horn of Africa
An already tense security environment in the Horn of Africa is growing even more perilous.
March 27, 2024
United States
Modernizing the Federal Student Loan Experience
President Biden wants to modernize the federal student loan system. The U.S. Postal Service and Affordable Care Act can show him how.
January 12, 2024
Indonesia
Indonesia’s Presidential Election: The Old Guard Faces the New
As President Joko Widodo’s presidential tenure comes to an end, Indonesia’s democratic future is at an inflection point.
