Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction 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…

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction 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…

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 change.

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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March 5, 2024

Women and Economic Growth

International Women’s Day, With Ann Norris

Ann Norris, a senior fellow for women and foreign policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss International Women’s Day and the challenges facing adolescent girls around the world and t…

Nepali students stand in line to attend their final exam in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 31, 2023.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Ann Norris The President’s Inbox

February 20, 2024

Ukraine

Year Three of the Ukraine War, With Miriam Elder and Carla Anne Robbins

Miriam Elder, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at CFR, and Carla Anne Robbins, a senior fellow at CFR and co-host of CFR’s The World Next Week podcast, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss wher…

A Ukrainian prisoner of war reacts after a swap at an unknown location in Ukraine on January 31, 2024.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Miriam Elder, and Carla Anne Robbins The President’s Inbox

October 24, 2023

Cybersecurity

Countering the Ransomware Threat With Anne Neuberger

Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger discusses international cyber cooperation initiatives to improve resilience to ransomware, efforts to disrupt ransomware and pursue those responsible f…

A cybersecurity agent checks data on a computer.

Virtual Event by Anne Neuberger and David E. Sanger Renewing America

May 9, 2024

Ukraine

How Much U.S. Aid Is Going to Ukraine?

Nine charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.

A Ukrainian serviceman carries an artillery shell.

Article by Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow

April 30, 2024

Sustainable Development Goals (UN)

Renewed Efforts are Urgently Needed to Fight Increase in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Without accelerated efforts, there is no chance of getting anywhere close to eliminating FGM/C by 2030.

Women from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender based violence play with their children outside a traditional mud dwelling known as Manyatta at the Umoja village where men are restricted, in Samburu near Archers Post in the northern Samburu County, Kenya.

Blog Post by Ann Norris Women Around the World

September 29, 2017

Development

A Conversation With Neal Keny-Guyer and Ann Miles

Women's economic participation is critical to global growth and prosperity, according to global data from the World Bank, IMF, McKinsey, and the OECD. Yet despite the consensus around women's role in…

Event by Ann Miles, Neal Keny-Guyer, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Women and Foreign Policy Program

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

May 8, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Few Options for Gazans as Israel Enters Rafah

An impending Israeli ground invasion of Rafah could threaten more than a million civilians seeking refuge in the city and further restrict humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

In Brief by Christina Bouri and Diana Roy

May 7, 2024

Public Health Threats and Pandemics

What Is Avian Flu?

A global surge in avian flu outbreaks in birds and some mammals is worrying poultry farmers, scientists, and health experts. The trend is provoking questions about the future of the disease and globa…