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February 20, 2024

Ukraine
Year Three of the Ukraine War, With Miriam Elder and Carla Anne Robbins

Miriam Elder, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at CFR, and Carla Anne Robbins, a senior fellow at CFR and co-host of CFR’s The World Next Week podcast, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss wher…

Podcast A Ukrainian prisoner of war reacts after a swap at an unknown location in Ukraine on January 31, 2024.

March 31, 2023

Switzerland
Women This Week: Elderly Women Sue Switzerland Over Climate Change

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers March 25 to March 31.

A group from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association hold banners outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France March 29, 2023.

July 10, 2024

Election 2024
Global Threats Loom if Biden Drops Out

The U.S. presidential election isn’t just a domestic affair. What Biden does will have major consequences for foreign policy and world security.

U.S. President Joe Biden looks down as he sits next to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the NATO Summit in Washington, in July 2024.

July 9, 2024

Japan
Tokyo Voters Make Their Choice

As the world watched critical national elections in the UK and France last week, Tokyoites prepared to vote for their governor.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike set to win re-election in Tokyo governor election

June 11, 2019

United States
Leveraging Multilateralism to Prevent Conflict: A Conversation with The Elders

The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, work to address challenges of peace-building, inequality, exclusion, and injustice in a rapidly changing world. Mary Robi…

Play Panelists discuss multilateralism.

February 20, 2024

Ukraine
Virtual Media Briefing: The Two-Year Anniversary of the War in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary on February 24, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations discuss the current state of the war, its long-term impact on the international o…

Play Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens a report of a Ukrainian serviceman.

March 5, 2024

Ukraine
The President’s Inbox Recap: Year Three of the Ukraine War

February 24 marked the beginning of the third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A soldier as viewed driving a tank in Ukraine.

July 1, 2021

Nigeria
Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made to look, and Igbo leadership appears to be in support of it, then the country should be advised not to stand in the way.”

A black and white photo of soldiers marching with rifles. Civilians crowd them to the side of the street.