November 2, 2018
United StatesNovember 2, 2018—Professor Stephen Kotkin has won the seventeenth annual Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 (Random House), the second…
April 17, 2018
U.S. Foreign Policy“Centralization of power in the executive, politicization of the judiciary, attacks on independent media, the use of public office for private gain—the signs of democratic regression are well known…
July 8, 2013
United StatesFormer U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon to Join CFR as Distinguished Fellow
October 15, 2015
GlobalWith the U.S. government still dealing with the fallout from the cyber theft of over twenty million personnel records in 2014—one of the largest data breaches in history—a new book from Council on Fo…
March 11, 2009
United StatesInspired by Machiavelli’s classic The Prince, CFR President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb offers guidelines to the U.S. president in a new book on how to think about and use American power effectively in t…
October 6, 2008
GlobalThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched the "CFR Forum" (http://blogs.cfr.org/forum), a new group blog, featuring a series of expert discussions moderated by CFR fellows. The forum will a…
December 16, 2013
VietnamFredrik Logevall Wins CFR’s 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for Embers of War
November 12, 2007
United StatesContact: Lisa Shields, Vice President, Communications, 212-434-9888, communications@cfr.org October 9, 2007— This provocative new book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern…
December 12, 2011
Saudi ArabiaThe U.S.-Saudi relationship has become strained by increasing mistrust and misunderstanding—most recently over Egypt and Bahrain—and gone are the old foundations of the informal alliance: the Cold Wa…
May 12, 2005
AfghanistanMay 12, 2005— Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (The Penguin Press), by Steve Coll, associate editor of the Washing…