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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.
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March 18, 2019
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Trump Is Repeating the Mistakes of America’s Interwar Isolationists
The Trump administration is repeating the mistakes of America’s interwar isolationists, who believed that the nation could and should insulate itself from global troubles. To understand this attitude…
October 6, 2020
News Release
Regime Change in the Middle East Is a False Promise, Writes Philip Gordon in New CFR Book
“The iron rule of regime change in the Middle East seems to be that its costs will be higher than expected, unintended consequences will emerge, and results will leave much to be desired.” So warns P…
August 11, 2003
Defense and Security
Korb: The Bush Team’s National Security Strategy and Reshaping U.S. Forces
Lawrence J. Korb, the Council on Foreign Relations’ director of National Security Studies and a former senior Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, says the Bush team’s national …
August 3, 2016
United States
Revisiting President Reagan’s Iran Arms-for-Hostages Initiative
The Wall Street Journal published an important story about the Obama administration’s decision in January to ship $400 million, which was first converted into Swiss and Dutch currencies, to Iran on b…
March 21, 2013
Trade
The Rising Tide: A New Look at Trade, Jobs, and Wages
In the Council on Foreign Relations 2011 Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy, we noted that many economists had begun to worry that growing U.S. trade with developing countries…
