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

Edward Fishman’s career has taken him from government to think tanks to Silicon Valley. He sat down with CFR to discuss the ...

The leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries did not resolve any of the major issues facing the U.S.-China ...

Venezuela’s political and economic crisis stems from two decades of authoritarian mismanagement under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, which produced an 80 percent collapse in GDP and drove nearly ...

CFR President Michael Froman discusses the takeaways from this week’s two major events: the annual UN General Assembly debate ...

Since the Future of American Strategy Initiative launched in late May, we’ve shared nearly thirty essays about where U.S.

The power struggle between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopia’s federal government has reignited after lying dormant since the 2020–22 civil war. In September 2026, the TPLF ...

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Trump’s meeting with Xi in Washington has intensified domestic pressure to pursue a U.S.-China deal on artificial ...