Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In our recent Barron’s column we argued that the past two U.S. administrations, ...

More than 155 million Americans voted in 2024: 156,302,318 to be exact. That’s the second largest total voter turnout in U.S.

Now, with the surprising decision to pass over his first-term chief trade negotiator Robert Lighthizer for a major role in ...

Roundtable Series on Women's Global Leadership and Women and Foreign Policy Program ...

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over ...

The fall of the French government, along with political uncertainty in Germany, has upped the pressure on President Emmanuel ...

As tensions escalate between the United States and China, India’s long-standing policy of strategic autonomy is increasingly ...

On a year-over-year basis, Chinese export volumes are up 13 percent (data through November, so it will be close to the 2024 annual number) while import volumes are only up 2 percent. With exports ...

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump is ...

China expanded its two-year-old private pension project this week in an attempt to reduce financial strain on the current ...

The flight of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to exile in Russia poses a major strategic challenge to Russian President ...

The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...