Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

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

Democracy

Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance

The rapidly changing landscape of foreign influence demands a new approach, argues Senior Fellow for Global Governance Miles Kahler. Countering malign influence from abroad will require a stronger democracy at home.

Council Special Report by Miles Kahler October 23, 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

Democracy

Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance

Council Special Report by Miles Kahler October 23, 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

United States

2024 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

This symposium was created to address the broad spectrum of issues affecting Wall Street and international economics. It was established through the generous support of Council board member Stephen C…

Virtual Event with Emily J. Blanchard, Matthew P. Goodman, David R. Malpass, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Janet Yellen, Michael Froman and Rebecca Patterson October 17, 2024 Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

United States

2024 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

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October 3, 2022

Foreign Policy

Lessons From History Series: The Legacy of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

In early 1947, Harry Truman announced that the United States would give assistance to countries under threat from authoritarian forces. Later that year, George C. Marshall addressed Harvard Universit…

Virtual Event by Timothy Garton Ash, Mary Elise Sarotte, Benn Steil, and Jonathan Tepperman Lessons From History

February 2, 2024

Political History and Theory

The President’s Inbox Recap: Henry Wallace and the Origins of the Cold War

The post-World War II era would have looked very different had Henry Wallace become president.

Henry Wallace as viewed sitting at a desk holding a stack of papers.

Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

October 5, 2023

Israel

The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, on Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel. The resulting conflict sparked an Arab oil embargo, a superpower confrontation, a global recessio…

Virtual Event by Ehud Barak, Dorit Beinisch, Nabil Fahmy, Thomas L. Friedman, Richard Haass, Tamir Hayman, Henry A. Kissinger, William B. Quandt, Itamar Rabinovich, Khalil Shikaki, Manuel Trajtenberg, Martin S. Indyk, Elise Labott, Andrea Mitchell, Carla Anne Robbins, and Gideon Rose Middle East Program

April 11, 2024

Sudan

Congress’s Urgent Agenda, Sudan’s Year of War, Ecuador-Mexico Embassy Fray, and More

Congress returns from recess and grapples with contentious agenda items, including reauthorization of a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and a Ukraine aid package; Sudan enters a …

Sudanese security forces patrol in a commercial district in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on April 3, 2024.

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

March 2, 2015

Vietnam

The Best Histories of the Vietnam War

Next Sunday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first American combat troops in Vietnam. It wasn’t a decision that President Lyndon Johnson had planned on making. True, the previous …

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 15, 2023

Ukraine

How Does the War in Ukraine End?

Experts discuss the U.S. policy options available in Ukraine and how the current military situation on the ground affects what the United States should do next to achieve its goal in the region.

Two people visit the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv

Virtual Event by Philip M. Breedlove, Charles A. Kupchan, Alina Polyakova, and Jill Dougherty Europe Program

October 25, 2023

Turkey

Turkey, the United States, and the Israel-Hamas War

President Erdogan’s recent troubles with the United States have prevented Turkey from playing a potentially constructive role in the early phases of the Israel-Hamas war.