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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 15, 2024
RealEcon
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Global Trade Leadership
Under Biden and Trump, the U.S. has broken from its long-standing free trade policy. CFR trade experts assess whether the rules-based trading system is worth saving.
April 1, 2024
Brazil
Brazil Should Use G20 Momentum to Join the OECD
Brazil has an opportunity to become a powerful bridge between developed economies and the Global South—the United States should support that ambition.
April 1, 2024
United States
In the Age of AI, Personal Data Security Is National Security
The United States’ commodified data market is creating increasing national security threats that federal authorities are currently incapable of meeting; the problem will only increase as AI advances…
March 7, 2024
Women and Women's Rights
Abortion Law: Global Comparisons
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost fifty years. How does regulation of abortion in the United States compare to that in th…
February 12, 2024
Palestinian Territories
Democracy and the Two-State Solution
The war in Gaza has focused attention once again on the search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution favored by the United States, the European Union, most of the world’s de…
February 9, 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…
February 9, 2024
Ukraine
Will Ukraine Survive?
What Ukraine and its Western backers have accomplished in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 invasion is extraordinary. But with congressional Republicans blocking further US military aid, even as Ru…
January 17, 2024
Democracy
Political Hurdles on Ukraine’s Way to EU Membership
After the 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, which overthrew a deeply corrupt, Russian-backed regime, Ukraine declared its ambition to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic community of free-market democracie…
December 21, 2023
United States
These Eight Charts Show Why Fentanyl Is a Huge Foreign Policy Problem
Overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are the leading cause of death among young Americans and a threat to U.S. public health, the economy, and national security. Combating the epi…
December 19, 2023
Democracy
What a Democratic Russia Would Mean for the United States
When the Soviet Union collapsed more than thirty years ago, American leaders hoped that Russia would embark on a transition to free-market democracy. Shared democratic values, the thinking went, woul…