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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January 12, 2024

Women and Foreign Policy Program

Virtual Roundtable: Ending Child Marriage in the United States and Abroad

Payzee Mahmod, Casey Swegman, and Ann Norris discuss ending child marriage in the United States and abroad

Virtual Event by Payzee Mahmod, Casey Swegman, and Ann Norris Renewing America

May 10, 2024

Digital Policy

Cyber Week in Review: May 10, 2024

State Department releases digital diplomacy strategy; Microsoft bans police from using AI facial recognition; sixty eight companies sign CISA pledge; researchers discover whale alphabet; Microsoft in…

People walk past a poster simulating facial recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China on October 24, 2018

Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

November 2, 2023

Global

What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The United Nation’s ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.

Students attend a lesson at a school in the Tillabéri region of Niger.

Backgrounder by Clara Fong and Diana Roy

February 23, 2024

Ukraine

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Wally Adeyemo

As the two-year mark of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo discusses the U.S. coalition’s sanctions strategy, its effectiveness, and the challeng…

Virtual Event by Wally Adeyemo and Michael Froman C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

January 29, 2024

Philippines

Marcos Jr. Moves the Philippines Dramatically Closer to the United States

Unlike other Southeast Asian leaders, President Marcos Jr. has chosen to explicitly align the Philippines with the United States and confront China more directly.

Philippine President Marcos wears a white button-down shirt while he walks past white colonnades with U.S. President Biden, who wears a blue suit.

Article by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

December 5, 2023

South Korea

The United States–South Korea Alliance

The alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. Yet it now faces challenges from within. Domestic pol…

Book by Scott A. Snyder Asia Program

February 12, 2024

Trade

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics with Katherine Tai

Ambassador Katherine Tai discusses the role of trade policy in the global economy, current U.S. trade strategy, and priorities for the WTO Ministerial Conference. The C. Peter McColough Series on …

Katherine Tai is smiling with an American flag in the background.

Virtual Event by Katherine Tai and Michael Froman Renewing America

February 14, 2024

South Korea

The United States–South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not

Summary The U.S.-South Korea alliance has been the cornerstone of bilateral cooperation and the U.S. security presence in the Indo-Pacific region for over seven decades and continues to serve as a…

Teaching Notes by Scott A. Snyder Asia Program

March 7, 2024

United States

Virtual Media Briefing: Foreign Policy in the State of the Union

Panelists preview potential foreign policy themes in President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, including immigration, trade, and conflict in the Middle East. ROBBINS: So welcome to today’s…

President Biden delivers remarks in Washington

Virtual Event by Steven A. Cook, Shannon K. O'Neil, Christopher M. Tuttle, and Carla Anne Robbins Media Briefings

January 5, 2024

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Far-Right Terrorism in the United States

In recent years, far-right terrorism has become a leading national security concern for the United States. However, this type of violence and the extremism that inspires it are far from new. The U.S. far right has been gaining momentum for decades, helping to proliferate a web of conspiracy theories and insidious ideologies such as white supremacism, antisemitism, and anti-government extremism, all of which are converging to pose a grave threat to American democracy.

Timeline by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware