In a recent survey that the Council on Foreign Relations conducted, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the Alaska Purchase as the twenty-sixth best decision in ...

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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list, ranking tenth in ...

The 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women approves steps to improve access to justice for women and girls despite US opposition and amid funding cuts and a potential UN merger.

Leaders in the region weren’t necessarily interested in a war with the Islamic Republic, but they now need Trump to oust the ...

It is also clear in this striking chart—one that the IMF might well want to ponder. It shows the contribution of net exports ...

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has boosted Russia’s oil revenues and its ability to ramp up its own war with Ukraine, but ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.

Sebastian Mallaby spent more than two decades as a journalist at the Economist and the Washington Post before joining the ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy proclaims that “the United States must be preeminent in the Western ...