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September 10, 2014

United States
Understanding ISIS’s Apocalyptic Appeal

By Ella Lipin President Barack Obama’s expected announcement today of a long-term military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) follows an unusually grizzly few months of terr…

Militant Islamist fighters associated with ISIS  take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014 (Courtesy Reuters).

February 9, 2005

United States
Robert Blackwill, Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Planning, Joins the Council on Foreign Relations

February 9, 2005 - Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill has been named Counselor of the Council on Foreign Relations. His initial focus will be to lead a roundtable series in New York and Washington, DC on…

February 14, 2001

Brazil
A Letter to the President and a Memorandum on U.S. Policy Toward Brazil

Latin America in general—and Brazil in particular—is coming to the forefront of U.S. policy challenges. In response to this situation, this blue-ribbon Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council…

August 13, 2013

Egypt
The Politics of Energy: What Morsi’s Fall Means for Jordan

This post is written by Sarah Craig, a Council on Foreign Relations research intern from Princeton University. Jordan’s king Abdullah was the first foreign head of state to visit Egypt after the mi…

Flames rise from an Egyptian pipeline distribution station after an attack in the Sinai peninsula July 12, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters).

May 10, 2013

Immigration and Migration
Managing Illegal Immigration to the United States

Overview The authors examine U.S. efforts to prevent illegal immigration to the United States. Although the United States has witnessed a sharp drop in illegal border crossings in the past decade …