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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September 21, 2023

Iraq

A Conversation With Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani of Iraq

Prime Minister Shia’ al-Sudani discusses Iraq-U.S. relations, Iraq’s foreign policy priorities, and geopolitical and security trends in the region.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at his first regular session of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad, Iraq.

Virtual Event by Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani and Ayman Mohyeldin

December 1, 2005

Egypt

Egypt’s Mohamed Kamal: Islamists Should be Integrated into Egyptian Political Debate

Mohamed Kamal, a prominent member of a new generation of reformers within Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party [NDP], says that while he does not favor legalizing the banned Muslim Brotherhood in…

Interview by Sharon Otterman and Mohamed Kamal

March 25, 2024

India

The Indian Giant Has Arrived

With India's development continuing to gain steam, one of the biggest challenges will be to avoid the mistake that others have made when they failed to recognize their newly acquired global systemic …

Article by Mohamed A. El-Erian and A. Michael Spence Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

May 2, 2024

Maldives

The Maldives Is Moving Toward China. Here’s What to Know.

Once a close Indian partner, the Maldives is now aligning more with China. Is the island nation becoming a flash point in the China-India relationship?

In Brief by Rhea Basarkar

September 23, 2021

Qatar

A Conversation With Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani of Qatar

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani discusses developments in Afghanistan, engagements with Palestinians, policy priorities for Qatar-U.S. relations, and broader regional concerns.

Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speaking at a table.

Virtual Event by Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Meghan L. O'Sullivan

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

November 30, 2018

Middle East and North Africa

A Conversation With Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani for a discussion on the foreign policy challenges facing Qatar, its vision for the Middle East, and the future of U.S.-Qatar relations.

Event by Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani