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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.

March 5, 2018

Renewable Energy
Without Significant New Investment in Innovation, Solar Energy’s Growth Will Stall

March 5, 2018—Solar energy could one day supply most of the world’s energy needs, but its current upsurge is in danger of ebbing, increasing the risk of catastrophic climate change. While solar energ…

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, by Varun Sivaram

November 4, 2021

Competitiveness
Major Power Rivalry and the Management of Global Threats

The United States should regard distrust, not cooperation, as a baseline condition for starting negotiations around shared global threats and challenges with other major powers, such as China and Russia.

October 25, 2024

Iran
What Are Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities?

Iran’s nuclear program and missile arsenal have garnered increased international scrutiny amid its flaring conflict with Israel.

A view of the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran, December 2019.

September 24, 2024

Bangladesh
Can Bangladesh Really Reform?

Bangladesh's interim government is struggling to maintain basic stability and public services as it pushes for ambitious reforms. The powerful army, patronage networks, and political parties remain m…

Bangladesh's interim leader sits at a table with a red velvet tablecloth and white and pink flowers while signing a document.

May 25, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: China Responds to U.S. Solar Tariffs

China responded to the recently imposed 31 percent U.S anti-dumping tariffs on imports of Chinese solar panels with investigations into U.S. clean energy projects (WSJ). China’s Commerce Ministry all…

A worker cleans solar panels on a rooftop in Zhejiang Province, China (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters).

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…

Play Map of South Asia.