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Nuclear energy is gaining momentum as countries seek reliable, low-emission power sources to meet increasing electricity demand and climate goals amid uncertainty in fossil fuel markets. Its revival renews long-standing debates over safety and nuclear proliferation.

Sowing doubt about the U.S. commitment to alliances in East Asia could upend the military and strategic balance in the region and undermine U.S. interests in the process.

Actions by advanced economies to limit rising government bond yields are unlikely to be durable without additional policy change or a material economic slowdown—but the first is unlikely and the second is unwanted.

The war against Iran has shown that Pentagon’s reliance on hard-to-produce hi-tech weapons creates a vulnerability in a world in which quantity may overwhelm quality.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Rush Doshi, Erin D. Dumbacher, William Henagan, Michael C. Horowitz, and Samuel Lazarus, “Out of Ammo: A Two-Year Sprint to Rebuild the American Arsenal and Deter China,” Council on Foreign Relations “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1),” U.S.…

Trump’s abrupt rollback of joint military exercises with South Korea is the latest in a series of actions draining Asian allies’ confidence in U.S. security commitments—and hands China another opening to exploit.

What to make of Zambia’s 2026 general elections?

The CIA’s Operation Ajax helped push Iran toward autocracy and encouraged U.S. presidents to approve other covert efforts to oust governments they disliked.

CFR’s press fellow explains how he went from chasing stories across Asia at age twenty-two to writing one of Washington’s top foreign affairs newsletters—and now pens his own column for The New Yorker.

Executive Summary The United States is increasingly ill-equipped to deter or defeat Chinese aggression in the Western Pacific, particularly a potential invasion or blockade of Taiwan. The U.S. military no longer possesses the requisite quantity of warfighting systems—nor the indu…

Debt crises in Senegal, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom offer warnings and lessons for the U.S.’ fiscal challenges.

This week on The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby weigh the competitors in the global artificial intelligence race, drawing on Patterson’s new chapter for the book Geopolitics of AI.  Patterson opens with a deliberately provocative stance: “I think it…

Despite undeniable progress, insecurity in Nigeria remains by and large intractable.

New reporting indicates that Trump’s boat strike program could be more secretive, larger, and more resistant to oversight than previously known.

The order reduces the number of childhood vaccines recommendations and separates measles, mumps, and rubella into different shots.

A defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey shows how far U.S. influence in the Middle East has eroded—and how regional powers are now shaping their own security order.

Long, mysterious absences promote the idea that unaccountable forces are at the levers of power.

Sadanand Dhume has both sprinted as a foreign correspondent and endured the marathon of writing two books. The new senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia sat down with CFR to share insights from his experiences covering the economy, extremism, and international relatio…

This week Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby, with guest Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, discuss the ongoing economic spillovers of the Iran war, from energy markets to maritime shipping. Five months into the Iran war, energy prices are climbing once more. Brent crude is “getting…

The CFR Global Imbalances Tracker can be used to gauge, through time, the vulnerability of individual countries and the global economy to the buildup of imbalances in the current account (of which trade deficits or surpluses are the largest component).  Below, the Globa…

Trump’s desire to end the confrontation with Iran quickly, so oil flows and prices drop, has left him with no real bargaining position. That has emboldened Iran to demand a deal that would let it monetize the Strait of Hormuz and reassert the dominance the region has spent …

Did the United States act too hastily in dropping a second atomic bomb on Japan?

Congress endorsed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to confront North Vietnam without investigating whether the facts justified that decision.