Despite not delivering major mandates, the summit could start a new process for sustainable development and open opportunities for new stakeholders, says CFR’s Thomas Bollyky.

CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby says the G-20 summit could mark the beginnings of a profound shift in global financial regulation. But he says challenges lurk in the way the IMF is funded and how it monitors…

Eric Schwartz, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as director of the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Iraq: The Day After, says that the United States has to m…

Paul Collier, an economist and author of The Bottom Billion, discusses five steps to sustainable resource management in Africa.

A CFR expert on nuclear issues, Paul Lettow says President Obama’s agenda will be heavily tilted toward nuclear issues in 2010. He says this is "the ideal moment for strong American leadership on the…