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April 2, 2015

Asia
Japan's Reckoning With a Rising China

CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith introduces her new book, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China.

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August 20, 2021

Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war. 

Three movie posters: Platoon (a helmet lies upside down beneath a line of soldiers); The Thin Red Line (a close up of three soldiers’ faces in grass); 1917 (two soldiers run into a sunrise).

September 26, 2023

Diplomacy and International Institutions
David A. Morse Lecture With Ajay Banga

On the eve of his first annual meeting, World Bank president Ajay Banga discusses the bank’s ambitious roadmap at a time it is being called to lead the world in addressing intertwined challenges of p…

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September 15, 2010

China
Struggles with the Software

Whenever I am confronted with some new press report about how rapidly Chinese science and technology is growing, my first reaction is usually, "yes, but..." The "but" almost always revolves around w…

Struggles with the Software

February 27, 2013

Labor and Employment
Policy Initiative Spotlight: The Global Squeeze on Tax Cheats

Midnight. A fishing trawler lurches violently in a squall off the coast of Marseille. A seemingly lifeless body is spotted adrift off the bow, and fished out of the roiling sea. No identification. No…

Logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen on a building in Zurich (Michael Buholzer/Courtesy Reuters).