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October 21, 2024

Climate Change
Securing the Future: Navigating the Nexus of Climate and Defense

Panelists discuss the intersection of climate change and national security, the emerging challenges for defense, and how the U.S. military is adapting to address these evolving threats.  

Play U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, deployed during Exercise Trident Juncture 18, hike to a cold-weather training site inland in Iceland, October 19, 2018
Event by Meredith Berger, Sherri Goodman, Varun Sivaram, and Raj Kumar Energy Security and Climate Change Program

February 15, 2023

Economics
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 A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a screen shows Federal Reserve Board Chairman.
Virtual Event by Karen Karniol-Tambour, Jens Nordvig, Alan M. Taylor, and Sebastian Mallaby World Economic Update

October 13, 2020

International Organizations
Nigerian (and American) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finalist for WTO Director General

The two finalists for the position of director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are Yoo Myung-hee, Republic of Korea, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian and (since 2019) an American citizen.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian woman running for WTO director general, raises her left arm while speaking. She is wearing a traditional headdress.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

March 22, 2007

Trade
WTO Trade Rules Benefit the United States, Says New Council Report

The Doha negotiations have stalled and the November elections in the United States showed that advocates of economic nationalism are growing in strength. Nevertheless, a new Council Special Report ma…

News Releases

October 25, 2023

Military Operations
Academic Webinar: Military Strategy in the Contemporary World

Stephen Biddle, adjunct senior fellow for defense policy at CFR and professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, leads the conversation on military strategy in the contempora…

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Webinar by Stephen Biddle and Irina A. Faskianos National Security and Defense Program

December 4, 2009

International Organizations
The Vanishing WTO

Amid the global economic downturn, the World Trade Organization has been reduced to a talking shop as the prospects for a new global trade deal grow dimmer, says CFR’s Marc Levinson.

Expert Brief by Marc Levinson