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November 10, 2020

News Release
Reform State Department or Risk Further Damage to U.S. Influence Abroad, Warns CFR Report

“America’s network of international relationships is its foremost strategic asset, even as the agency charged with advancing U.S. interests through diplomacy—the Department of State (DOS)—has fallen …

January 2, 2024

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
New Book Details How the United States Faces a Threat From Far-Right Terrorism and What to Do About It

The United States is “confronted by a serious domestic terrorist threat in addition to the foreign ones that have commanded our attention for the past two decades,” warn Council on Foreign Relations’…

November 4, 2011

Civil Society
State Department Needs “Clear Guidelines” on Engaging with Nonstate Armed Groups

Recent data on organized violence shows that conflicts between a state and one or more nonstate armed groups vastly outnumber interstate conflicts. As a result, argues former international affairs …

October 2, 2013

United States
Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Former State Department Chief Economist, Joins CFR as Senior Fellow

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of State, has joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a senior fellow. Her work will focus on the role of economics in U.S…

June 5, 2003

United States
Richard Haass, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, Selected Next President of the Council on Foreign Relations

  Board of Directors Makes Leslie Gelb President Emeritus   June 5, 2003 - Ambassador Richard N. Haass, a principal foreign policy adviser to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, will becom…