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September 23, 2024

United States
A Conversation With General CQ Brown, Jr.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, Jr. reflects on his first year as chairman and discusses his vision for the joint forces over the coming years.  The David A. Morse Lectur…

Play U.S. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. foregrounds a United States flag at a press conference in Ramstein, Germany.

October 17, 2024

United States
2024 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

This symposium was created to address the broad spectrum of issues affecting Wall Street and international economics. It was established through the generous support of Council board member Stephen C…

U.S. Secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen speaks atop the Council on Foreign Relations stage in Manhattan, New York

November 5, 2024

United States
Staffing a New Administration, With Stephen Hadley (Transition 2025, Episode 1)

Stephen Hadley, a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC and former national security advisor to President George W. Bush, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the presidential transitio…

Podcast Movers taking boxes out the White House on President Barack Obama’s last full day in office, January 19, 2017. Yuri Gripas/Reuters

March 4, 2025

Germany
Term Member Meeting: Germany’s Next Chapter—Post-Election Analysis and Global Impacts

Panelists discuss the February German election results and their implications for Germany’s domestic policies, NATO commitments, and the broader European landscape, with insights into how Germany’s n…

Play Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader and Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz campaigns ahead of the 2025 Hamburg state election.

August 20, 2024

Grand Strategy
A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for Multipolar Pluralism, With Stephen Heintz

Stephen Heintz, president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States should adapt to an era of renewed great power competition and dome…

Podcast Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

July 16, 2024

Nuclear Weapons
The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, With Stephen Flynn

Stephen Flynn, chair of the Committee on Assessing WMD Nuclear Terrorism at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and a political science professor at Northeastern University,…

Podcast A Marine Corps officer participates in a simulated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on July 23, 2023. Mitchell Johnson/U.S. Department of Defense

December 6, 2023

Economics
Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

The 2023 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics will discuss international economic leadership. This symposium is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies a…

March 5, 2025

RealEcon
Trump’s Investment Policy: Clarifying and Confounding

The Trump administration’s America First Investment Policy has the virtue of conceptual clarity but provides little hope of effective implementation.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the America First Policy Institute America First Agenda Summit in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2022.

March 19, 2024

Grand Strategy
A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for U.S. Retrenchment Overseas, With Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and where the United States …

Podcast Members of South Korea's Army Special Warfare Command prepare to parachute during their military exercise with U.S. Special Operations Command in Gwangju, South Korea, on March 14, 2024.