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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.
Independent Task Force Program
Recent Task Force Reports
June 20, 2023
U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era
Although a conflict in the Taiwan Strait has thus far been avoided, deterrence has dangerously eroded. To maintain peace, the United States must restore balance to a situation that has been allowed to tilt far too much in China’s favor.
July 12, 2022
Confronting Reality in Cyberspace
The early advantages the United States held in cyberspace have largely disappeared as the internet has become more fragmented, less free, and more dangerous. The United States needs a new foreign policy for cyberspace to secure its economic and security interests.
March 23, 2021
China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative poses risks to participating countries and challenges to U.S. interests abroad. The United States should coordinate with partners to promote a secure and sustainable development agenda of its own.
Upcoming Task Force on Space Management Policy
CFR has launched an Independent Task Force on Space Management Policy, chaired by retired Lieutenant General Nina Armagno, USSF, and former Congresswoman Jane Harman. Esther Brimmer, CFR’s James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance, serves as project director. Composed of thirty-five experts, the Task Force is examining challenges in low Earth orbit and beyond, places where the acceleration in human activity is most evident, in a time of heightened geopolitical and commercial competition. The Task Force aims to produce a consensus report in late 2024 that offers findings and recommendations that can help frame the future of the space economy, national security, and the sustainable use of the space domain.
Staff
Anya Schmemann
Managing Director
Chelie Setzer
Deputy Director
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Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "U.S.-Russia relations are clearly headed in the wrong direction," finds an Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Russia sponsored by the …
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This Council-sponsored Independent Task Force Report argues that Africa is becoming steadily more central to the United States and to the rest of the world in ways that transcend humanitarian interes…
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This Council-sponsored, independent Task Force points out that nation-building is not just a humanitarian concern, but a critical national security priority that should be on par with war-fighting an…
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A Council-sponsored Task Force says that the United States should support the evolutionary development of democracy consistently throughout the Middle East. It points out that a strategy to promote d…
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have positioned American troops along Iran’s borders, making the United States and Iran wary competitors and neighbors who nonetheless possess overlapping interests. …
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While “al-Qaeda’s current and prospective ability to raise and move funds with impunity has been significantly diminished . . . al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations still have ready access to f…
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In the year that has passed since the war in Iraq, the United States and its European allies have done much to repair their relations. Nonetheless, the end of the Cold War, Europe's continuing integr…
