An insider’s perspective on why U.S. policymakers repeatedly underestimate the costs and consequences of intervention to both the United States and the people of the Middle East.

Teaching Notes on The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11 by CFR Senior Fellow Edward Alden.

Three experts join CFR President Richard N. Haass to outline the courses of action available to the United States and debate whether U.S. intervention in Syria would be desirable or effective in this…

Teaching Notes on Regional Monetary Integration by CFR Senior Fellow Peter B. Kenen and co-author Ellen E. Meade.