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 December 5, 2023 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 December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

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

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

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

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve discusses the challenges facing U.S. economic recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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September 17, 2024

United States

CFR Welcomes Acclaimed Historian Timothy Snyder as a Senior Fellow for Democracy

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Timothy Snyder as a senior fellow for democracy. At CFR, Snyder will play a key role in the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future o…

News Releases

September 13, 2024

Election 2024

CFR Election 2024 Initiative to Convene Forums in Four Pivotal States

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched an Election 2024 initiative to explore the role of the United States in the world, how international affairs issues affect voters, and what is at s…

News Releases

September 5, 2024

United States

A Conversation With Mike Froman

CFR President Mike Froman discusses his career, priorities for the Council, and the current events affecting U.S. foreign policy, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The CFR Young Profe…

Michael Froman speaks at a meeting in The Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Virtual Event by Michael Froman and Margaret E. Richardson

August 20, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel to Govern AI

U.S. government agencies are being asked to rapidly scale governance efforts focused on AI. The U.S. government should integrate governance into agencies' existing mandates, rather than trying to cre…

People walk near a sign for Sapeon, an artificial intelligence (AI) chip company, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain on February 27, 2024.

Blog Post by Jack Corrigan and Owen J. Daniels Net Politics

August 15, 2024

United States

A Conversation With Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Christopher G. Cavoli

General Cavoli discusses the Euro-Atlantic Partnership, security challenges in the region, Russia's war in Ukraine, and his takeaways from the NATO Summit in Washington.

Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, atttends a news conference in Brussels, Belgium.

Event by Christopher G. Cavoli and Ivo H. Daalder

July 30, 2024

State and Local Governments (U.S.)

Reporting on Statehouse Politics and Elected Officials

Diana Fuentes, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, discusses accountability journalism and reporting on state politics. The host of the webinar is Carla Anne Robbins, senior fe…

Virtual Event by Diana Fuentes, Carla Anne Robbins, and Irina A. Faskianos Local Journalists Webinars

July 26, 2024

United States

Election 2024: Kamala Harris Is the Democratic Presidential Nominee

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Kamala Harris is seeking to become the first sitting vice president since George H. W. Bush to be e…

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

July 22, 2024

United States

As Biden Drops Out, Does the ‘Stolen’ Vice Presidency of 1944 Have a Lesson for 2024?

“We should look back on 1944 with a great sense of awe and responsibility” for what could have gone very differently with American history and the Cold War, says Senior Fellow Benn Steil.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a podium.

Article by Benn Steil RealEcon

July 22, 2024

National Security and Defense Program

CFR Welcomes Lori Esposito Murray as Senior Fellow for National Security and Managing Director of CEO Programs

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Lori Esposito Murray back as senior fellow for national security and managing director of CEO programs. Murray previously served as an adj…

News Releases

June 5, 2024

Russia

Leslie H. Gelb Memorial Event: Common Sense and Strategy in Foreign Policy

David E. Sanger discusses U.S. rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States an…

Virtual Event by David E. Sanger and Michael Froman