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March 9, 2011

Technology and Innovation
Engaging Through Science: A Tool for U.S. Foreign Policy

Google's Vinton G. Cerf and USAID's Alex O. Dehgan discuss utilizing science and technology to allow leaders, diplomats, and innovators around the world to engage with one another.

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February 12, 2019

Health Policy and Initiatives
Local Lessons, Global Solutions on Urban Health

The future of global health is urban. There are 4.2 billion city dwellers worldwide, accounting for 55 percent of the world’s population. The population of city dwellers globally is projected to grow…

A child runs beside the waste-burning area of a dump in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

December 11, 2014

Cybersecurity
Coming Soon: Another Country to Ratify the Budapest Convention

Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier this week, Canada’s parliament passed legislation that would allow i…

Budapest COE Cyber CFR

March 29, 2023

Arctic
What’s Cracking in the Arctic?

As rising global temperatures thaw the ice at the North Pole of the planet, competition between nuclear-powered states threatens to heat up the Arctic Circle even further. An increasingly minable Arc…

Podcast Red icebreaker sails through Arctic ice sheets.

June 15, 2007

Sudan
Darfur’s Peace Process

While attention is focused on deploying UN peacekeepers to Darfur, most experts say a negotiated peace agreement remains the only way to settle the crisis.