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 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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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February 14, 2024

Global Governance

Academic Webinar: Governing the Global Commons

Esther Brimmer, James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at CFR, leads the conversation on governing the global commons. FASKIANOS: Welcome to today’s session of the Winter/Spring 2024 C…

Virtual Event by Esther Brimmer and Irina A. Faskianos International Institutions and Global Governance Program

January 31, 2024

China

Academic Webinar: China-Russia Relations

Thomas Graham, distinguished fellow at CFR, and Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg fellow for China studies at CFR, lead the conversation on China-Russia relations. FASKIANOS: Welcome to today…

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shaking hands.

Virtual Event by Thomas Graham, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, and Irina A. Faskianos Asia Program

January 29, 2024

Technology and Innovation

Arthur Ross Book Award: "Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology"

Gideon Rose celebrates the winners of this year’s Arthur Ross Book Award: Chris Miller, Susan L. Shirk, and Daniel Treisman. The program includes an award ceremony with each winner, and a discussi…

Hand wearing gloves holding a yellow semiconductor chip

Virtual Event by Chris Miller, Susan L. Shirk, Daniel Treisman, Gideon Rose, and Michael Froman Renewing America

January 16, 2024

United States

Tough New Immigration Rules Risk Empowering the Cartels

Tight restrictions on asylum and parole will drive migration further underground, where criminal groups profit.

Blog Post by Will Freeman Renewing America

January 9, 2024

Conflict Prevention

What to Worry About in 2024

Panelists discuss potential and ongoing crises that may erupt or escalate in 2024, as well as their global political implications. This event will explore the results of the 2024 Preventive Prioritie…

Chinese Coast Guard vessel blocks a chartered supply boat delivering provisions in the South China Sea.

Virtual Event by Lee A. Feinstein, Mary Beth Long, David Miliband, Paul B. Stares, Juju Chang, and Michael Froman Center for Preventive Action

January 4, 2024

United States

Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Fellows’ Book Launch—God, Guns, and Sedition

In God, Guns, and Sedition, Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware offer the definitive account of the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States—and how to counter it. In recent years shocking acts o…

People grieving at the site of the site of the church shooting massacre in Charleston, South Carolina

Virtual Event by Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware, and Michael Froman Renewing America

December 28, 2023

United States

Remembering Ten Americans Who Died in 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten Americans we lost this year who made a mark in foreign policy. 

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

December 20, 2023

United States

Happy 4th Birthday to the U.S. Space Force!

The newest branch of the U.S. military marks its fourth year of service.

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

December 20, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Year of AI and Elections

Billions of people will take to the polls next year, marking the world’s largest-ever electoral field. But this historic scale is not the only thing that will make 2024 unique. As new threats like de…

People from around the world casting ballots in elections. This image includes content generated by artificial intelligence.

Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra, Kat Duffy, and Yoel Roth Why It Matters

December 19, 2023

Middle East and North Africa

The Laws of Armed Conflict and Ethics in the Israel-Hamas War

As military operations resume in Gaza, panelists analyze the application of the laws of armed conflict, ethical and moral considerations, and the complexity of applying these principles in the contex…

Image of a collapsed minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza.

Virtual Event by Geoffrey S. Corn, Janina Dill, Patrick Hamilton, and John B. Bellinger III International Institutions and Global Governance Program