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China and Russia’s quasi-alliance endangers U.S. national interests. Its management will prove a generational task for American policymakers—but there are grounds for optimism, argue CFR Senior Fellow Robert Blackwill and Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine.
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A rapidly changing world poses both challenges and opportunities to the United States. The U.S. Foreign Policy program seeks to understand those challenges and opportunities, and assess the forces and dynamics shaping U.S. foreign policy decision-making, and offer specific recommendations for action.
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Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Meaghan Mobbs, Brent Sadler, and Jacob Olidort, testified on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 to the House Oversight and Gover…
The goal of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine just got harder.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants includes a plan to transport potentially thousands to Guantánamo Bay. It is likely to spur international condemnation and a range of legal challenges.
Given recent developments in the Trump administration's approach to Russia and Ukraine, members are invited to join this virtual media briefing with CFR fellows.
As the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, CFR experts provide insights on the talks between the United States and Russia, the reactions from Europe, and the path forward for Ukraine.
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Trump, Russia, and the Future of Ukraine
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Edward Fishman, senior research scholar and adjunct professor at Columbia University and author of Chokepoints: American Power in an Age of Economic Warfare, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the United States’ expanded use of financial and trade sanctions in recent years and whether they have enabled Washington to accomplish its foreign policy objectives.
The U.S. government has found that genocide has occurred in several parts of the world over the last two decades, most recently in Sudan and China. What are the policy implications of the label?
As Donald Trump pushes for a quick end to the war in Ukraine, Americans increasingly favor doing more to help Kyiv.
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Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of Fellowship Affairs
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The proliferation of space debris and a lack of agreed-upon rules threatens the essential benefits of space for commerce and security.
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The decline of U.S. foreign reporting in China widens the gap between the two societies and heightens the risk of crises spiraling out of control.
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The president will speak to an American public divided over his administration’s policies.
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The goal of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine just got harder.
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Trump is looking to negotiate directly with Moscow to secure a peace deal on Ukraine.
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Modi and Trump seek closer ties even as policy and politics constrain what they can accomplish.
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An increasingly interconnected world will be more chaotic and disorderly.
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Donald Trump’s embrace of power politics could be costly for the United States.
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Donald Trump has moved quickly to implement his foreign policy agenda. More changes are coming.