January 31, 2019
Health Policy and InitiativesHealth and infectious diseases have shaped the history of urbanization, but it is cities that will define the future of global health.
October 1, 2018
Health Policy and InitiativesSeptember 28, 2018—There is a paradox in global health: the…
February 7, 2019
International OrganizationsSince its founding in 1944, the World Bank has evolved from a lender focused on European reconstruction to the preeminent international institution for economic development and poverty reduction.
January 24, 2019
International OrganizationsThe Group of Seven serves as a forum for highly industrialized democracies to coordinate economic, security, and energy policy, but the Trump administration has provoked questions about the group’s c…
January 23, 2019
United StatesPresident Donald Trump says he will deliver his second State of the Union address next Tuesday night as planned. The question is, where will he deliver it? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week cit…
April 6, 2018
HealthCFR's Thomas J. Bollyky and James M. Lindsay discuss global health and World Health Day.
December 3, 2018
United StatesAnniversaries recall our triumphs, honor our losses, and mark our tragedies. Two thousand eighteen witnessed many significant anniversaries: the centennial of the end World War I, the fiftieth annive…
November 14, 2018
Women and Women's RightsThis post was coauthored by Alexandra Bro, research associate in the women and foreign policy program. Last week, US voters reshaped the face of Congress, pushing women's representation there clos…
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…
November 1, 2018
Human RightsAbuses committed by African militaries in the fight against Boko Haram have raised important questions about U.S. military involvement in the conflict, particularly the debate about U.S. military assistance and the role of the nearly 1,800 U.S. personnel across West and Central Africa.