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January 28, 2008

Global
Media Conference Call: Robert M. Kimmitt on Sovereign Wealth Funds and the World Economy (Audio)

Listen to Robert M. Kimmitt, U.S. deputy secretary of the treasury, discuss his recent Foreign Affairs article on the rise of sovereign wealth funds.

Podcast

June 28, 2018

Libya
Rushing Libya’s Elections Will Lead to Disaster

The following is a guest post by Alexander Decina, research associate for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than two years, the UN-backed Government of National …

HNEC attack

October 10, 2003

United States
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Named Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations

October 10, 2003—The Board of Directors named former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, director and chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, as a vice chairman of the Council. He join…

June 20, 2024

United States
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Turning Point—The Bomb and The Cold War

The Netflix series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War is an exploration of the decades-long conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union framed by current events that reveal the Cold…

Play A cinematographer films an atomic mushroom cloud in a project named "Operation Plumbbob" Colorado.

April 3, 2024

United States
What Does the U.S. National Guard Do?

The National Guard is a special part of the U.S. military that answers to both state governors and the president. While it began as a “strategic reserve,” the guard has come to play an important role…

A member of the National Guard patrols the southern U.S. border in Eagle Pass, Texas.