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October 31, 2024

Climate Change
COP29 Summit in Baku: What to Expect

The 2024 summit in Azerbaijan comes amid fresh reports showing that global warming levels are accelerating, bringing more intense climate-related disasters and an increased demand for funding to miti…

Citizens walks near a sign for COP29 near the Baku Olympic Stadium, the venue of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference on October 23, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

November 1, 2024

Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: November 1, 2024

Senators voice concerns about UN Cybercrime Convention; Russia targets Ukraine with hybrid campaign; GitHub announces Copilot changes; CSRB to review Salt Typhoon cyberattack; China detains South Kor…

A sign is pictured in the hallway of the Microsoft Cybercrime Center, the new headquarters of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, in Redmond, Washington on November 11, 2013.

November 10, 2014

India
India’s Brinkmanship at WTO Hurts It at APEC

The annual APEC summit is underway in Beijing. Perhaps the most notable absentee is India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who received an unprecedented invitation in July from Chinese President Xi Ji…

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October 15, 2024

United States
The Time Is Right for Ally-Shoring, and It’s About More Than Being Friends

As the global economy realigns, the next U.S. president should formalize a liberal economic bloc of allied countries to stand up against authoritarian rivals.

Giorgia Meloni, Charles Michel, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz,Justin Trudeau, Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden stand together on the first day of the G7 summit, in Savelletri, Italy, June 13, 2024.

November 7, 2023

Aging, Youth Bulges, and Population
Demography and World Power, With Nicholas Eberstadt

Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how demographic trends in China, Russia, and the United…

Podcast New residents celebrate birthdays at a care home for the elderly in Beijing, China on May 25, 2021.

November 3, 2024

Economics
The U.S. Income Balance Puzzle

The long-standing surplus in the U.S. investment income account, often cited as evidence of  “exorbitant privilege,” is receding. It already goes away without the income from profit-shifting by U.S. …

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October 2, 2024

Israel
One Year After the October 7 Attacks: The Impact on Four Fronts

The turbulent year since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel draws to a close, marked by a sharp escalation in conflict between Israel and Iran and its proxies. Four CFR experts assess the changes since …

July 14, 2016

Health
Podcast: The Next Director-General of the World Health Organization

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The term of the current director-general of the World Health Organ…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan leaves the podium after her speech at the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 2016.