Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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April 24, 2024

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

NATO: Seventy-Five Years Later

This year NATO celebrates seventy-five years of collective defense, expanding from twelve founding members in 1949 to thirty-two today. Panelists discuss the evolution of NATO as it has sought to…

A color guard from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) carries the NATO flag at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia and two other soldiers stand on either side.

Virtual Event by Rose E. Gottemoeller, Matthias Matthijs, Alexander R. Vershbow, and Mary Sarotte Europe Program

April 18, 2024

European Union

Trends in International Trade: A Conversation With Valdis Dombrovskis

The European Commission’s Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, discusses the trends and shocks affecting international trade, the value-added of multilateralism, a…

Portrait of Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis with American and European Union's flags in the background.

Virtual Event by Valdis Dombrovskis and Miriam Sapiro C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

April 8, 2024

Sexual Violence

Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Preventing and Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict

The United Nations recognized rape as a war crime in 2008 through the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1820. Despite this step, sexual violence remains a widespread practice in wars and con…

Sheryl Sandberg at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations

Virtual Event by Phoebe Donnelly, Madeleine Rees, Rachel B. Vogelstein, and Sheryl Sandberg Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

May 8, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

War in Gaza Update: The Rafah Incursion and Negotiations Over Hostage Release and Ceasefire

Israeli forces launch a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah

Virtual Event by Elliott Abrams, Steven A. Cook, and Carla Anne Robbins Middle East Program

October 6, 2021

China

Centennial Speaker Series Session 7: Will the 21st Century be China's?

Elizabeth Perry discusses China, its role in the world, and how emerging great power competition could shape the 21st century. This meeting is the seventh session in CFR’s centennial speaker serie…

People watch a flag-raising ceremony at the Tian'anmen Square on the first day of the May Day holiday on May 1, 2021 in Beijing, China. May Day, also known as Labor Day, is observed on May 1 in China.

Virtual Event by Elizabeth J. Perry and Richard Haass

April 23, 2024

United States

The U.S.-ASEAN Relationship: A Conversation With U.S. Ambassadors

Panelists discuss the strategic opportunities and challenges of the U.S.-ASEAN partnership in addressing pressing regional and global issues, including trade, maritime security, human rights, climate…

ASEAN leaders interlock hands and pose for a family photo at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, in Melbourne, Australia.

Virtual Event by Edgard D. Kagan, Marc E. Knapper, Ted Osius, Heather Variava, and Calvin Sims

May 2, 2024

Economics

RealEcon: Reimagining American Economic Leadership

Matthew Goodman, distinguished fellow and director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, discusses CFR’s new RealEcon initiative and the role of state and local officials in contrib…

Webinar by Matthew P. Goodman and Irina A. Faskianos State and Local Webinars

April 23, 2024

Climate Change

Special Event: Dinner of Extinction—A Taste of Climate Action

The “Dinner of Extinction” will address the dangers the world faces due to climate change and rapidly deteriorating ecosystems. Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutriti…

A female employee wearing a white shirt arranges pricetags at a vegetables work bench full of green leafy vegetables and red tomatoes.

Event by Ertharin Cousin, Cary Fowler, Samuel D. Kass, Sherri Goodman, and Michael Froman

September 27, 2023

Center for Preventive Action

Virtual Roundtable: Prospects for Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Since December 2022, Azerbaijan has enforced a blockade of the only road linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, known as the Lachin Corridor. Just as a compromise materialized, Azerbaijan launched an o…

Carey Cavanaugh, Olesya Vartanyan, and Paul Stares discuss prospects for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Virtual Event by Carey Cavanaugh, Olesya Vartanyan, and Paul B. Stares Center for Preventive Action