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April 17, 2008
China
Friedman: Chinese Believe Tibetans, Other Ethnic Groups Should be Incorporated into One China
Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."
December 14, 2011
United States
Mr. Friedman’s Diatribe Against Israel
Occasionally critics of the government of Israel and of its American supporters put aside polite talk and bare their souls, and that can be an edifying if deeply unattractive moment. Such a moment ar…
March 3, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa
Friedman’s List: What It May Mean Below the Sahara
A youth wearing a shirt of U.S. President Barack Obama stands in a crowd waiting for food distribution at Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, August 24, 2010. (Finbarr O'Reill…
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Friedman Family Foundation Strategic Innovation Fund
This endowed fund was established in 2017 by Stephen Friedman and the Friedman Family Foundation to serve as a bridge to support scholar-practitioners when they initially join CFR or when they shift to a new area of research.
October 5, 2023
Israel
The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later
Fifty years ago, on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel. The resulting conflict sparked an Arab oil embargo, a superpower confrontation, a global recessio…
June 5, 2024
Russia
Leslie H. Gelb Memorial Event: Common Sense and Strategy in Foreign Policy
David E. Sanger discusses U.S. rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States an…
