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January 7, 2025

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
When the World Closed Its Doors

A detailed exploration of the most sweeping government border closures in human history during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of global mobility.

December 23, 2024

Foreign Policy
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, here are the ten most notable world events of the year. 

Khartoum Bombing September 2024

December 11, 2024

United States
Watchlist 2025: Safeguarding the World's Most Vulnerable Nations

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), presents the new IRC Emergency Watchlist report, highlighting the countries at highest risk of humanitarian crises in 20…

Play David Miliband sits atop CFR stage

October 22, 2024

China
China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”

With the developing world’s growing use of costly and opaque “payday loans” from China’s central bank, the IMF and World Bank need to demand far greater transparency from Beijing. 

China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”

December 19, 2024

Ukraine
The World Next Year: Wars, New Governments, and Stormy Weather to Watch in 2025

In this special year-end episode, hosts Bob McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins sit down with the New York Times’ chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe Steven Erlanger to review the biggest stories of …

Podcast A Palestinian boy walks through a cleared path of rubble of damaged buildings pulling a cart in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

October 2, 2024

Global
Central Bank Currency Swaps Tracker

Introduction Since the financial crisis of 2007, central banks around the world have entered into a multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a centr…

October 21, 2024

South Korea
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Governor Rhee Chang Yong of the Bank of Korea

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang Yong discusses monetary policy in South Korea and the implications of reshaping global value chains. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brin…

Play  Rhee Chang-yong speaks in Seoul, South Korea

October 7, 2024

United States
World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

Play The American flag superimposed over a pile of stacked American dollar banknotes.

November 14, 2024

Election 2024
Why the World Next Week Matters

Why It Matters sits down with the hosts of The World Next Week to talk about what the United States–and a closely watching world–should expect in the weeks and months to come as incoming President Tr…

Podcast U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-Elect Donald Trump while seated in the Oval Office at the White House.

November 13, 2024

Technology and Innovation
The New Tech World Order

For most of our history, the realm of international relations was dominated by nation-states. They waged wars and signed treaties through the framework of governance. But today, more so than ever bef…

Podcast Local residents in Ukraine stand around a satellite using the internet from the Starlink network.