Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Europe

NATO’s Future: Enlarged and More European?

Please join us for two panels to discuss the agenda and likely outcomes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit, taking place in Washington DC from July 9 to 11. SESSION I: A Conversation With NSC Director for Europe Michael Carpenter 12:30 p.m.—1:00 p.m. (EDT) In-Person Lunch Reception 1:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m. (EDT) Hybrid Meeting SESSION II: NATO’s Future: Enlarged and More European? 1:30 p.m.—1:45 p.m. (EDT) In-Person Coffee Break 1:45 p.m.—2:45 p.m. (EDT) Hybrid Meeting

Virtual Event with Emma M. Ashford, Michael R. Carpenter, Camille Grand, Thomas Wright, Liana Fix and Charles A. Kupchan June 25, 2024 Europe Program

Europe

NATO’s Future: Enlarged and More European?

Virtual Event with Emma M. Ashford, Michael R. Carpenter, Camille Grand, Thomas Wright, Liana Fix and Charles A. Kupchan June 25, 2024 Europe Program

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September 5, 2024

United States

A Conversation With Mike Froman

CFR President Mike Froman discusses his career, priorities for the Council, and the current events affecting U.S. foreign policy, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The CFR Young Profe…

Michael Froman speaks at a meeting in The Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Virtual Event by Michael Froman and Margaret E. Richardson

July 30, 2024

Grand Strategy

A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for Liberal Realism, With Charles A. Kupchan

Charles A. Kupchan, a senior fellow at CFR and a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States should adapt to an era o…

World Bank President Ajay Banga, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet during the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, on September 9, 2023 Evan Vucci/Pool/Reuters

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Charles A. Kupchan The President’s Inbox

June 6, 2024

Climate Change

European Parliament Elections, G7 Leaders’ 50th Summit, Powerful Hurricane Season Looming, and More

All twenty-seven European Union (EU) member states vote in European Parliament elections with polls showing right-wing parties poised to gain more seats; the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial de…

Hurricane Irma seen striking Miami, Florida with 100+ mph winds and destructive storm surge.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

September 12, 2023

China

The Role of U.S.-China Competition in Global Health Aid

The United States and China are competing to offer health aid to nations in the South Pacific.

A soldier stares at a white U.S. Navy ship with a red cross.

Blog Post by Snehal Patel Asia Unbound

September 12, 2024

China

What Is China’s Role in Combating the Illegal Fentanyl Trade?

Those seeking to profit from fentanyl and governments seeking to control its supply are locked in a never-ending competition, with each new countermeasure spurring further innovation to circumvent it…

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer weighs a package of fentanyl in San Ysidro, California.

Expert Brief by Zongyuan Zoe Liu

April 6, 2022

China

Academic Webinar: Why Nations Rise: China, India, and the Narratives of Great Powers

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, CFR’s senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, leads a conversation on why nations rise: China, India, and the narratives of great powers. FASKIANOS: Welcome t…

Webinar by Manjari Chatterjee Miller and Irina A. Faskianos Asia Program

November 7, 2023

Aging, Youth Bulges, and Population

Demography and World Power, With Nicholas Eberstadt

Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how demographic trends in China, Russia, and the United…

New residents celebrate birthdays at a care home for the elderly in Beijing, China on May 25, 2021.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Nicholas Eberstadt The President’s Inbox

March 1, 2021

China

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers? America, China, and the Global Order

Panelists discuss the rise and fall of great powers and the competing grand strategies of the United States and China. The C.V. Starr & Co. Annual Lecture on China was established in 2018 to hono…