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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.
Event by Brian Knappenberger, Lynn Rusten, Andy Weber, and Timothy Naftali Paul C. Warnke Lecture

September 19, 2024

United Nations
Security Challenges Cloud UN’s Summit of the Future

This year’s UN summit offers a rare chance for reform of the world’s leading peace and security body but is bedeviled by major power tensions over intractable wars.

People sit in rows of chairs around a C-shaped desk in a large conference room hall.
Expert Brief by Paul B. Stares and Natalie Caloca

September 23, 2024

Ukraine
Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture With Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha of Ukraine

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha discusses Ukraine's strategy in the war against Russia, the country's economy and energy resilience, and Ukraine's objectives to join NATO and the European Union. In…

Play Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha of Ukraine at a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Virtual Event by Andrii Sybiha

September 16, 2024

United States
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Reagan—His Life and Legend by Max Boot

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in…

Play President Ronald Reagan at Republican convention Rally in 1982.
Virtual Event by Max Boot and James M. Lindsay

February 8, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israel-Hamas War: The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

International calls for a cease-fire are mounting as the humanitarian situation in Gaza deteriorates rapidly amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

In Brief by Christina Bouri and Diana Roy

February 12, 2024

Russia
What Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Means for the War in Ukraine

In last week’s rare interview with a Western media figure, Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to combine a more reasonable tone with endless reminders of why Western governments think he’s not re…

Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. television host Tucker Carlson in Moscow.
In Brief by Stephen Sestanovich Europe Program

June 18, 2024

Sudan
Sudan’s Ongoing Civil War, With Michelle Gavin

Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the ongoing deadly conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

Podcast A damaged tank in Omdurman, Sudan, on April 7, 2024.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Michelle Gavin The President’s Inbox

January 16, 2024

Ukraine
How the Drone War in Ukraine Is Transforming Conflict

Drone technology has been used extensively in twenty-first-century armed conflict, but the Russia-Ukraine war is driving innovations in autonomous warfare not seen on other battlefields.  

A man in camo releases a drone into the sky.
Article by Kristen D. Thompson

July 11, 2024

Daily News Brief
NATO Names China a ‘Decisive Enabler’ of Russia’s War, and Other Headlines of the Day

The Daily News Brief

Article by CFR.org Editors

June 6, 2024

Lebanon
What Escalating Hezbollah-Israel Tensions and the War in Gaza Mean for Lebanon

Already hobbled by economic struggles, Lebanon now faces the prospect of war as the militant group and political party Hezbollah clashes with Israel in apparent support of Palestinians in the Gaza St…

In Brief by Christina Bouri Middle East Program