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During the annual UN General Assembly, government and business leaders spoke at CFR about strengthening alliances and partnerships, reforming the global financial system, and managing security pressures—from the African Sahel to the South China Sea.

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Operation Epic Fury followed a historically familiar pattern: the United States opted for military force without carefully weighing the potential consequences.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Princeton University Press Eliot A. Cohen, The Strategist: How to Think About War and Politics, Princeton University Press Robert W. Komer, Bureaucracy Does Its Thing: Institutional Constraints on U.S.-GVN Perform…

Russia’s attacks on cultural heritage in occupied Ukraine are neither accidental nor merely symbolic, experts say. They are an attempt to rewrite history, erase Ukraine’s identity, and make annexation permanent.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed for the acquisition of Greenland. The administration’s goal of asserting a greater U.S. presence in the Danish territory could have significant consequences for both the Arctic and the NATO alliance.

On both sides of the Red Sea, interconnected conflicts metastasize while Washington sends mixed signals.

Executive Summary Despite being the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India have often been at odds over issues of strategic autonomy and Western-dominated rules and institutions. The end of the Cold War presented the two with a window for rapprochement, and …

Edward Fishman’s career has taken him from government to think tanks to Silicon Valley. He sat down with CFR to discuss the importance of developing your own voice, how tech converges with foreign policy, and the pivotal lesson he learned on a trip to Lithuania.

The leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries did not resolve any of the major issues facing the U.S.-China relationship. But that does not mean the meeting was a complete failure.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. can grow its way out of debt. Is he right?

CFR President Michael Froman discusses the takeaways from this week’s two major events: the annual UN General Assembly debate and the U.S.-China summit.

The first in a series of posts on the Future of American Strategy Initiative’s national outreach.

This week, hosts Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson speak with Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and staff writer for the Atlantic, to unpack why Europe still isn’t doing enough to support Ukraine, and what a shifting Russian threat—driven by a new drone warfa…

Trump’s meeting with Xi in Washington has intensified pressure to pursue a U.S.-China deal on artificial intelligence (AI). Although a deal is extremely unlikely today, Washington can take steps now that make one more likely in the future.

In January, China condemned the United States’ capture and arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Brazil reacted to China’s 55 percent tariff on beef imports by preparing to scale back production. Argentina received its first shipment of Chinese electric and hybrid vehicl…

Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. For the fifth time, U.S. President Donald Trump ascended the marble dais to deliver his speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly. Over the decades, world leaders …

A landmark 1996 treaty to ban all nuclear weapons tests has yet to go into effect.

Recent escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war has halted the Black Sea grain trade and metastasized into a war on the global food system. Combined with drought in the Northern Hemisphere, a looming super El Niño, and persistent instability in the Middle East—the world is on the ver…

The second of four meetings in 2026 between the leaders of the United States and China is unlikely to produce any major breakthroughs.

Long-standing educational programs such as Fulbright, Boren, and the Critical Language Scholarship are all suspended. A leader-level deal could bring them back and protect the students who take part.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Dario Amodei, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” darioamodei.com Julian Gewirtz, “Is Trump Really Giving Xi a State Visit 40 Days Before the Midterms?” Paper Tiger “Taiwan Relations Act (H.R. 2479),” U.S. Congress

The honors for Xi exceed what Trump got in Beijing, but the asymmetry goes beyond the pageantry. A quick brief on ten issues that will define the state visit.

Each year, the General Assembly hosts a much-watched debate of world leaders. The 2026 meeting is expected to focus on several critical topics, including climate change, artificial intelligence governance, and major ongoing conflicts in Iran, Ukraine, and elsewhere.