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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May 8, 2024

Politics and Government

2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

The 2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs was a collaborative effort by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Access Pipeline, and the International Career Advancement Program…

Virtual Event by Kevin A. Ball, María G. Barsallo Lynch, Mohamad Bazzi, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Esther Brimmer, Laura Delgado Lopez, Rush Doshi, Miriam Elder, Andrea R. Flores, Eric Garcetti, Sherry Hakimi, Shanthi A. Kalathil, Jessica Keegan, Andrew S. Kim, Brian Mateo, Ebenezer Obadare, Mira D. Patel, Sabrina Roshan, Pir Z. Shah, Ruth J. Simmons, Paul B. Stares, Munish Walther-Puri, Daniel E. White, Jamila White, Edith L. Bartley, Sewell Chan, Bay Fang, Michael Froman, Hermes Grullon, Charles A. Reynolds, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Gabrielle Sierra, Sue Mi Terry, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

April 4, 2024

Trade

Series on Emerging Technology, U.S. Foreign Policy, and World Order: A Conversation With Patrick P. Gelsinger of Intel

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses developments in the tech industry, implications of geopolitical conflicts on global trade, and leadership lessons learned.

Virtual Event by Patrick P. Gelsinger, Jon Fortt, Blair W. Effron, and Michael Froman Series on Emerging Technology, U.S. Foreign Policy, and World Order

April 4, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

CFR Luncheon Discussion at ISA: Foreign Policy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The CFR luncheon event held in conjunction with the International Studies Association featured a discussion on Foreign Policy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence on Thursday, April 4, in San Franci…

Event by Rachel Gillum, Andrew W. Reddie, Carla Anne Robbins, and James M. Lindsay

December 14, 2023

Global Health Program

Thomas J. Bollyky Named Council on Foreign Relations’ Inaugural Bloomberg Chair in Global Health

Thomas J. Bollyky will be the first holder of the Bloomberg endowed Chair in Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), President Michael Froman announced. Bloomberg Philanthropies …

News Releases

April 9, 2024

Defense and Security

Series on Emerging Technology, U.S. Foreign Policy, and World Order: Frontline Innovations—Defense Solutions for National Security Challenges

Panelists discuss new and emerging commercial defense technology, current opportunities and challenges in defense innovation, and the future landscape of national security. For those attending vir…

Two F-22 Raptor fighter jets of the 95th Fighter Squadron and an A-10 Thunderbolt (R) from Whiteman air force base, Missouri, approach the refueling nozzle of a KC-135 Stratotanker

Virtual Event by Douglas A. Beck, Steve Bowsher, and Linda S. Lourie Series on Emerging Technology, U.S. Foreign Policy, and World Order

January 9, 2024

Political History and Theory

New Book Examines the Colorful and Tumultuous Political Career of Henry Wallace

In a new book filled with political drama and intrigue, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellow Benn Steil offers the richest and deepest biographical study to date of Henry A. Wallace—a “fa…

News Releases

February 8, 2024

United States

The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy

Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.

Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters

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

February 8, 2024

Taiwan

Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense

Taiwan has the potential to be a flash point in U.S.-China relations. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei in 2022 heightened tensions.

A statue of a Taiwanese soldier looks over the Taiwan straight at a Chinese city.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland

March 12, 2024

Defense and Security

Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Conflict Resolution in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Philip Gamaghel…

Servicemen of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh rest at their positions near the village of Mataghis. April 6, 2016.

Webinar by Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Philip Gamaghelyan, and Irina A. Faskianos Religion and Foreign Policy Webinars