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November 8, 2024

United States
Transition 2025: Donald Trump Won the Presidency. Now He Needs to Staff His Administration

Each Friday, I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Presidential transitions are complicated affairs, especially when power passes f…

Trump Delivers Election Victory Speech on Wednesday Morning, November 6

December 12, 2024

Latin America
Mercosur: South America’s Fractious Trade Bloc

Three decades after its founding, Latin America’s largest trade bloc continues to seek new global agreements. The recent conclusion of a deal with the European Union could help, but it faces roadbloc…

A truck driver waits to unload his cargo of cereal grain at a rail terminal in Brazil.

November 5, 2024

United States
The President’s Inbox Recap: Another Presidential Transition Begins

Whoever wins today’s U.S. presidential election has less than eleven weeks to staff up the team that will lead the country come Inauguration Day. 

President George W. Bush meets president-elect Barack Obama in the Oval Office

December 12, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy

China and Russia’s quasi-alliance endangers U.S. national interests. Its management will prove a generational task for American policymakers—but there are grounds for optimism, argue CFR Senior Fello…

December 4, 2024

Economics
RealEcon Welcomes Dr. Sadek Wahba To Discuss Global Infrastructure Investment

The strategic stakes of infrastructure have risen in recent years with the emergence of new technologies and competing visions for connectivity such as China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Dr. Sadek Wah…

Jonathan Hillman and Dr. Sadek Wahba

December 4, 2024

South Korea
Martial Law in South Korea

Yoon Suk-Yeol’s shocking declaration of ‘emergency martial law’ was a frontal assault on the integrity of South Korea’s hard-won democratic system.

Placards are placed on a police vehicle as people they gather outside the National Assembly, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law

March 7, 2024

Women and Women's Rights
Abortion Law: Global Comparisons

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost fifty years. How does regulation of abortion in the United States compare to that in th…

People hold signs in favor of abortion rights.

October 15, 2024

Democracy
Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Religion in the 2024 U.S. Election

Adelle M. Banks, projects editor and national reporter for Religion News Service, and Adam Nicholas Phillips, chief strategy officer and chief of staff at Interfaith America, discuss the evolving rol…

Play Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump pray during the invocation on the day Trump makes a campaign stop at manufacturer FALK Production in Walker, Michigan, U.S. September 27, 2024.