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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August 9, 2018

Pakistan

Pakistan With Christine Fair

Christine Fair, associate professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and expert on South Asian political and military affairs, joins James M. Lindsay to discuss Pa…

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and C. Christine Fair The President’s Inbox

April 15, 2020

COVID-19

Coronavirus in South Asia, April 15, 2020: India, Pakistan, and Others Extend Lockdowns; Surge in Bangladesh

As Modi, Khan, Hasina, and other leaders tackle COVID-19 (coronavirus) by prolonging national shutdowns, economic forecasts indicate a rocky year ahead for South Asia.

Two columns of soldiers in blue uniforms patrol a street, with an officer in a beige uniform walking between them.

Blog Post by Erik Fliegauf and Alyssa Ayres Asia Unbound

October 12, 2012

Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament

Drone Politics in Pakistan

Protests in Pakistan led by politician Imran Khan show how U.S. drone strikes are being exploited in the run-up to the general election, says expert Joshua Foust.

Interview by Jeanne Park and Joshua Foust

September 22, 2022

Pakistan

A Conversation With Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari of Pakistan

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari discusses seventy-five years of Pakistan-U.S. relations, as well as the challenges of climate change, including the recent flooding in Pakistan.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 2022

Virtual Event by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Laura Trevelyan

September 21, 2023

Pakistan

A Conversation With Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar of Pakistan

Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar discusses the relationship and partnership between Pakistan and the United States and efforts to establish peace, security, and prosperity in the region.

Virtual Event by Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and Stephen J. Hadley