Symposium

2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

Wednesday and Thursday, May 8–9, 2024

Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

The 2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs is a collaborative effort by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Access Pipeline, and the International Career Advancement Program. For information about the conference in previous years, please click here.

CDIA 2024

Plenary I: Elections in Flux—The State of Democracy in 2024

Keynote Session: A Conversation With Eric Garcetti

Plenary II: Frontline Reports—Perspectives on Global Press Freedoms and the Future of Journalism

Keynote Session: A Conversation With Ruth Simmons

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United States

Foreign Policy at the U.S. National Political Conventions

Foreign policy issues regularly come to the fore at the national political conventions, especially during periods of global instability. Sometimes the events are marked by bitter disagreements within the parties.

Backgrounder by Jonathan Masters and Gopal Ratnam June 11, 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 February 8, 2024

China

The Chinese Communist Party

Under the command of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party faces a host of domestic and international challenges as it aims to bolster China’s great-power status.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland and Eleanor Albert October 6, 2022

CDIA 2024

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