Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Trade

Tariffs on Trading Partners: Can the President Actually Do That?

President Donald Trump has promised to enact sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners. At a September campaign event in Pennsylvania he stated, “I don’t need Congress” to impose tariffs, “I have…

Report by Inu Manak and Helena Kopans-Johnson February 4, 2025 Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Trade

Tariffs on Trading Partners: Can the President Actually Do That?

Report by Inu Manak and Helena Kopans-Johnson February 4, 2025 Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? A Conversation With Reid Hoffman

Tech leader Reid Hoffman shares his insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future and its transformative potential to improve lives and create positive change. The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology addresses issues at the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy. It has been endowed in perpetuity through a gift from CFR members Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener.

Virtual Event with Reid Hoffman and Deven J. Parekh January 30, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? A Conversation With Reid Hoffman

Virtual Event with Reid Hoffman and Deven J. Parekh January 30, 2025

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February 5, 2025

United States

What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico could upend U.S. trade. These nine charts show what’s at stake, what comes next, and why it matters.

Article by Shannon K. O'Neil and Julia Huesa

February 3, 2025

Trade

Media Briefing: Bracing for a Trade War

CFR experts provide insights and context around President Donald Trump's announced tariffs and what they mean for North American trade, U.S. alliances, and global competition.

The flags of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Virtual Event by Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Inu Manak, Inu Manak, Benn Steil, Benn Steil, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, and Michael Froman Media Briefings

January 27, 2025

Economics

Global Trade Tracker

The CFR Global Trade Tracker allows you to gauge trends in international trade through time. The map below compiles trade data from 178 countries as reported to the International Monetary Fund (IM…

Tracker by Benn Steil Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

February 4, 2025

Trade

Tariffs on Trading Partners: Can the President Actually Do That?

Though Congress holds power over regulating commerce with foreign nations, it has incrementally delegated significant authority to the president, giving him broad discretion to take trade actions. …

Shipping containers at the Long Beach Containers Terminal in Long Beach, California, U.S., February 9, 2023.

Report by Inu Manak and Helena Kopans-Johnson Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

January 23, 2025

Political Transitions

Transition 2025 Series: Tariffs and Trade

Panelists discuss the potential impacts of President-elect Trump’s proposed trade policies on global supply chains and analyze shifts in U.S. trade policy over the last eight years. This meeting i…

U.S. President Trump signs the "Right to Try Act" at the White House in Washington, DC.

Virtual Event by Heather Hurlburt, Dennis C. Shea, Benn Steil, Patrick J. Toomey, and Ana Swanson Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

January 21, 2025

RealEcon

Tariff Strategies Don’t Cause Inflation, But Trade Wars Do

The Trump administration has lauded tariffs as policy panacea, but rising uncertainty around global trade will make it all the more difficult to bring inflation under control.

Close up shot of the open drawer of a cash till, full of American dollars. Sales assistant giving change to customer

Article by Dr. Christopher W. Smart RealEcon

February 2, 2025

Trade

Trump’s Risky New Era of Broken Trade Norms

The tariffs that President Donald Trump has announced against three of the United States’ biggest trading partners—Canada, China, and Mexico—look poised to shatter the era of a rules-based order with…

A customer holds a bottle as a sign that reads “Buy Canadian Instead” is displayed after the top five U.S. liquor brands were removed from sale at B.C. Liquor Stores, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Expert Brief by Edward Alden

February 7, 2025

Democratic Republic of Congo

War Returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo: What to Know

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of today’s violence can be traced back to old problems.

Armed soldiers stand in front of a packed crowd of civilians in front of a building in DRC.

Article by Stuart Reid and Mariel Ferragamo

January 31, 2025

RealEcon

It’s Time for a U.S.-India Trade Deal

This time around, Modi and Trump should seize the opportunity to strike a substantial bilateral agreement.

US President Donald Trump (R) and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a joint press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on February 25, 2020.

Article by Kenneth I. Juster and Mark Linscott RealEcon

January 28, 2025

RealEcon

Economic Security, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and a New American Consensus on Trade

Policymakers are rethinking old tools and creating new ones to address a range of concerns in the hopes of strengthening economic security. But the central point of tension between the US and its tra…

Article by Inu Manak China Strategy Initiative