Job Description
Informing U.S. engagement with the world
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Trump, Ukraine, and the NATO Summit: A Love Story
By Michael Froman
July 10, 2026
Spotlight
Iran War
Oil Production
Artificial Intelligence
War in Ukraine
China
Tariffs
Tensions at the NATO Summit
Expert Take
How Trump Brought Non-Alignment Back From the Dead
July 10, 2026
By Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine
July 6, 2026
By Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow
Expert Take
How Trump and the NATO Summit Lend Legitimacy to Turkey’s Autocratic President
July 2, 2026
By Henri J. Barkey
Expert Take
At the NATO Summit, Europe Faces an Accelerating U.S. Decoupling
June 30, 2026
By Liana Fix and Anna Terkhorn
Navigating the AI Moment
Expert Take
Myths, Fables, and Hard Truths About AI Governance
June 26, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself
June 22, 2026
By Matthew Ferren
Expert Take
Why Anthropic Is Sounding the Alarm on the Next Generation of AI
June 18, 2026
By Gordon M. Goldstein
Expert Take
The UN’s AI Panel Could Shape Global Governance. Can It Balance Science and Politics?
June 10, 2026
By Tony Oweke
Expert Take
What Trump's National Security AI Memo Gets Right—and Leaves Unresolved
June 9, 2026
By Vinh Nguyen and Michael C. Horowitz
What The U.S. Gets Wrong About China And AI
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, host Jim Lindsay talks with Alvin Wang Graylin, a senior fellow at the Asia Society and digital fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, about the assumptions driving U.S. AI policy, China’s pragmatic industry-first approach, and why Beijing’s regulatory framework may be more extensive than Washington’s or Brussels’.
Learn More
Iran War’s Ripple Effect
Expert Take
Trump’s Iran Food Deal Could End Up Helping the Regime, Not Its People
June 29, 2026
By Sam Vigersky
Expert Take
The Iran Deal Comes at a Cost to Israel. The White House Hasn’t Acknowledged It.
June 26, 2026
By Elliott Abrams
Another Hormuz? The Red Sea’s Threat to the Global Economy
June 24, 2026
By Diana Roy
Expert Take
The Iran War Turned Asia’s Fragile Energy Dependence Into an Emergency
June 23, 2026
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Expert Take
The True Cost of Trump’s Iran War
June 19, 2026
By Max Boot
Getty Images; Photo illustration by CFR
The Climate Threat
By Alice C. Hill
May 20, 2026
34:16Podcast
Lessons From 250 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy, With Robert Kagan
June 30, 2026
Expert Take
Where Does American Strategy Go From Here?
May 20, 2026
By Rebecca Lissner
Expert Take
Americans Actually Support U.S. Global Leadership
April 16, 2026
By Rebecca Lissner
Expert Take
The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions
Council on Foreign Relations
February 14, 2026
By James M. Lindsay
Geopolitics and the 2026 World Cup
Expert Take
The Balogun Red Card Reversal Shows That the U.S. Plays By Its Own Rules
July 6, 2026
By Ebenezer Obadare
Expert Take
The World Cup Is a Chance for North America to Overcome Its Frictions
June 12, 2026
By Inu Manak
FIFA Promised a World Cup Economic Boom, But U.S. Stands May Be Emptier Than Usual
June 11, 2026
By Mariel Ferragamo
FIFA World Cup 2026: The Geopolitical Tensions at Play Off the Pitch
June 10, 2026
By Mariel Ferragamo and Ivana Saric
Around the World
CFR analyses and explainers that address global issues and challenges.
Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters
Africa Has Faced a Rare Ebola Outbreak for Months. Here’s What to Know.
By Roxy Ekberg, Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy
July 7, 2026
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The Spillover
Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson trace those ripples, examining how international developments shape markets, policy, finance, and the future of business.
Follow
43:56Podcast
The Dollar Hedge Debate: Gold’s Track Record vs. Bitcoin’s Potential
July 7, 2026
47:59Podcast
America’s 250th Birthday Reveals a Fragile Bargain Between Democracy and Markets
June 30, 2026
42:21Podcast
What Will the Fed Become Under Chair Kevin Warsh?
June 22, 2026
42:20Podcast
Why the Real Path Out of AI Uncertainty and Poverty Is Smart Job Creation
June 18, 2026
40:40Podcast
SpaceX Goes Public + What IPOs Tell Us About Capital Markets
June 9, 2026
56:41Podcast
China’s $735B Trade Surplus + How Beijing Masks Its Holdings + The G7 Debates Global Imbalances
June 1, 2026
Podcast: Women in Power
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, CFR Senior Fellow Linda Robinson unpacks the unique challenges faced by women leaders, their contributions to democracy, and the critical lessons they offer in the fight against authoritarianism.
Watch More CFR Video
Publications
CFR publishes reports and papers for the interested public, the academic community, and foreign policy experts.
report
The Pharma Choke Point
Executive Summary U.S. dependence on China for essential medicines is structural—deeper, broader, and more consequential than conventional market analyses suggest. That dependence began with generic medicines and their ingredients but is now growing in biologics manufacturing, first-in-human trials, and synthetic DNA. That dependence is not simply the result of market conditions but rather decades of […]
June 2, 2026
report
Russian Annexation of Belarus
Introduction Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has made a concerted effort to keep Belarus in its sphere of influence. Belarus’s political, economic, and military autonomy has ebbed and flowed over time, depending on geopolitical circumstances, Russia’s needs, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s political adroitness. Nevertheless, the present moment poses unique challenges for […]
June 1, 2026
article
Washington's Growing Portfolio: Tracking U.S. Government Investments
CFR’s U.S. Government Deal Tracker shows how the government is experimenting with new tools and financing structures to advance a range of strategic sectors, including critical minerals, energy, global logistics, manufacturing, telecommunications, and other technologies.
July 2, 2026
By Jonathan E. Hillman
report
Financing the Missing Middle
A gap in private funding for companies and projects inhibits energy innovation in the United States. This “missing middle” slows or blocks technologies that could help the energy system become more secure, affordable, reliable, and sustainable from advancing through the demonstration and scale-up stages. Recent events have made the missing middle wider.
April 20, 2026
report
After Khamenei: Planning for Iran’s Leadership Transition
Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program, recommends that the United States reconsider its assumptions around eventual leadership change in Tehran, revive regime accountability efforts, prepare for opportunistic escalation by proxy groups, and ready itself for renewed nuclear diplomacy.
February 23, 2026
report
Preventing Renewed Conflict in Colombia
CFR International Affairs Fellow in National Security Roxanna Vigil argues that the United States should engage early with Colombia’s next administration to signal support for full implementation of the 2016 Peace Accords and provide targeted assistance.
February 17, 2026
report
Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance
The United States cannot out-mine and out-process China. Instead, it should leapfrog China’s dominance by scaling disruptive innovation, recovery, and recycling.
February 3, 2026
1/0
CFR Events
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Meeting
Media Briefing: Previewing the NATO Summit
July 6, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With Ambassador Yechiel Leiter of Israel
July 6, 2026
Meeting
The Gulf After the Iran War
June 30, 2026
Meeting
Ebola Update and the State of Outbreak Preparedness
June 24, 2026
Meeting
Virtual Roundtable: Generational Tobacco Bans and the Future of Tobacco Control
June 24, 2026
Symposium
Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: The Global Jobs Challenge
June 18, 2026
CFR in the News
View All
How Choke Points Became Weapons of War, with Edward Fishman
School of War Podcast
July 10, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
How America Turned The Dollar Into A Weapon
Mary in America
July 10, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Philippines Impeachment Trial Deepens a Dynasty War
GZERO Media
July 10, 2026
Featuring Joshua Kurlantzick
Hormuz Shipping Grinds to Near Halt After US, Iran Strikes
Bloomberg
July 9, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over A.I. Data Centers
New York Times
July 9, 2026
Featuring Jessica Brandt
Time May Be on Iran’s Side
National Security Journal
July 8, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Latest Content
View All
Expert Take
Trump, Ukraine, and the NATO Summit: A Love Story
July 10, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The Time Is Ripe for Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks, But Putin Could Escalate Conflict
July 10, 2026
By Thomas Graham
Expert Take
How the Coup Turned Myanmar Into Asia’s Deadliest Conflict
July 10, 2026
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Expert Take
How Trump Brought Non-Alignment Back From the Dead
July 10, 2026
By Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Expert Take
Whither African Solidarity?
July 9, 2026
By Ebenezer Obadare
Expert Take
Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows
July 9, 2026
By Clara Gillispie
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Trump, Ukraine, and the NATO Summit: A Love Story
By Michael Froman
July 10, 2026
- The Time Is Ripe for Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks, But Putin Could Escalate Conflict July 10, 2026 By Thomas Graham
- How the Coup Turned Myanmar Into Asia’s Deadliest Conflict July 10, 2026 By Joshua Kurlantzick
- Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows July 9, 2026 By Clara Gillispie
- The Strait of Hormuz Already Faces a Tough Recovery. Now Trump’s Iran Deal Is Unraveling. July 8, 2026 By Edward Fishman, Clara Gillispie, Elisa Ewers, Max Boot and Sam Vigersky
Spotlight
Iran War
Oil Production
Artificial Intelligence
War in Ukraine
China
Tariffs
Tensions at the NATO Summit
Expert Take
How Trump Brought Non-Alignment Back From the Dead
July 10, 2026
By Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine
July 6, 2026
By Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow
Expert Take
How Trump and the NATO Summit Lend Legitimacy to Turkey’s Autocratic President
July 2, 2026
By Henri J. Barkey
Expert Take
At the NATO Summit, Europe Faces an Accelerating U.S. Decoupling
June 30, 2026
By Liana Fix and Anna Terkhorn
Navigating the AI Moment
Expert Take
Myths, Fables, and Hard Truths About AI Governance
June 26, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself
June 22, 2026
By Matthew Ferren
Expert Take
Why Anthropic Is Sounding the Alarm on the Next Generation of AI
June 18, 2026
By Gordon M. Goldstein
Expert Take
The UN’s AI Panel Could Shape Global Governance. Can It Balance Science and Politics?
June 10, 2026
By Tony Oweke
Expert Take
What Trump's National Security AI Memo Gets Right—and Leaves Unresolved
June 9, 2026
By Vinh Nguyen and Michael C. Horowitz
What The U.S. Gets Wrong About China And AI
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, host Jim Lindsay talks with Alvin Wang Graylin, a senior fellow at the Asia Society and digital fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, about the assumptions driving U.S. AI policy, China’s pragmatic industry-first approach, and why Beijing’s regulatory framework may be more extensive than Washington’s or Brussels’.
Learn More
Iran War’s Ripple Effect
Expert Take
Trump’s Iran Food Deal Could End Up Helping the Regime, Not Its People
June 29, 2026
By Sam Vigersky
Expert Take
The Iran Deal Comes at a Cost to Israel. The White House Hasn’t Acknowledged It.
June 26, 2026
By Elliott Abrams
Another Hormuz? The Red Sea’s Threat to the Global Economy
June 24, 2026
By Diana Roy
Expert Take
The Iran War Turned Asia’s Fragile Energy Dependence Into an Emergency
June 23, 2026
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Expert Take
The True Cost of Trump’s Iran War
June 19, 2026
By Max Boot
Getty Images; Photo illustration by CFR
The Climate Threat
By Alice C. Hill
May 20, 2026
- The Broken Economic Order May 20, 2026 By Heidi E. Crebo-Rediker
- The Age of Economic Warfare May 20, 2026 By Edward Fishman
- The Protectionist Turn May 20, 2026 By Benn Steil
- Weaponizing Interdependence May 20, 2026 By Brad W. Setser
- The Labor Problem May 20, 2026 By Rebecca Patterson
34:16Podcast
Lessons From 250 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy, With Robert Kagan
June 30, 2026
Expert Take
Where Does American Strategy Go From Here?
May 20, 2026
By Rebecca Lissner
Expert Take
Americans Actually Support U.S. Global Leadership
April 16, 2026
By Rebecca Lissner
Expert Take
The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions
Council on Foreign Relations
February 14, 2026
By James M. Lindsay
Geopolitics and the 2026 World Cup
Expert Take
The Balogun Red Card Reversal Shows That the U.S. Plays By Its Own Rules
July 6, 2026
By Ebenezer Obadare
Expert Take
The World Cup Is a Chance for North America to Overcome Its Frictions
June 12, 2026
By Inu Manak
FIFA Promised a World Cup Economic Boom, But U.S. Stands May Be Emptier Than Usual
June 11, 2026
By Mariel Ferragamo
FIFA World Cup 2026: The Geopolitical Tensions at Play Off the Pitch
June 10, 2026
By Mariel Ferragamo and Ivana Saric
Around the World
CFR analyses and explainers that address global issues and challenges.
Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters
Africa Has Faced a Rare Ebola Outbreak for Months. Here’s What to Know.
By Roxy Ekberg, Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy
July 7, 2026
- A Year Later, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act Has a Clean Tech Silver Lining July 3, 2026 By David M. Hart
- As Death Toll Spikes, Venezuela’s Earthquakes Test U.S. Disaster Relief June 25, 2026 By Sam Vigersky
- A Super El Niño Looks Likely This Year June 22, 2026 By Alice C. Hill and Kathy Baughman McLeod
- Failure to Act in Sudan (Again) June 23, 2026 By Michelle Gavin
- China, Not Europe, is the Source of the World’s Imbalances June 22, 2026 By Brad W. Setser
- Tale of Two Ethiopias June 18, 2026 By Michelle Gavin
View All
The Spillover
Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson trace those ripples, examining how international developments shape markets, policy, finance, and the future of business.
Follow
43:56Podcast
The Dollar Hedge Debate: Gold’s Track Record vs. Bitcoin’s Potential
July 7, 2026
47:59Podcast
America’s 250th Birthday Reveals a Fragile Bargain Between Democracy and Markets
June 30, 2026
42:21Podcast
What Will the Fed Become Under Chair Kevin Warsh?
June 22, 2026
42:20Podcast
Why the Real Path Out of AI Uncertainty and Poverty Is Smart Job Creation
June 18, 2026
40:40Podcast
SpaceX Goes Public + What IPOs Tell Us About Capital Markets
June 9, 2026
56:41Podcast
China’s $735B Trade Surplus + How Beijing Masks Its Holdings + The G7 Debates Global Imbalances
June 1, 2026
Podcast: Women in Power
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, CFR Senior Fellow Linda Robinson unpacks the unique challenges faced by women leaders, their contributions to democracy, and the critical lessons they offer in the fight against authoritarianism.
Watch More CFR Video
Publications
CFR publishes reports and papers for the interested public, the academic community, and foreign policy experts.
report
The Pharma Choke Point
Executive Summary U.S. dependence on China for essential medicines is structural—deeper, broader, and more consequential than conventional market analyses suggest. That dependence began with generic medicines and their ingredients but is now growing in biologics manufacturing, first-in-human trials, and synthetic DNA. That dependence is not simply the result of market conditions but rather decades of […]
June 2, 2026
report
Russian Annexation of Belarus
Introduction Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has made a concerted effort to keep Belarus in its sphere of influence. Belarus’s political, economic, and military autonomy has ebbed and flowed over time, depending on geopolitical circumstances, Russia’s needs, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s political adroitness. Nevertheless, the present moment poses unique challenges for […]
June 1, 2026
article
Washington's Growing Portfolio: Tracking U.S. Government Investments
CFR’s U.S. Government Deal Tracker shows how the government is experimenting with new tools and financing structures to advance a range of strategic sectors, including critical minerals, energy, global logistics, manufacturing, telecommunications, and other technologies.
July 2, 2026
By Jonathan E. Hillman
report
Financing the Missing Middle
A gap in private funding for companies and projects inhibits energy innovation in the United States. This “missing middle” slows or blocks technologies that could help the energy system become more secure, affordable, reliable, and sustainable from advancing through the demonstration and scale-up stages. Recent events have made the missing middle wider.
April 20, 2026
report
After Khamenei: Planning for Iran’s Leadership Transition
Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program, recommends that the United States reconsider its assumptions around eventual leadership change in Tehran, revive regime accountability efforts, prepare for opportunistic escalation by proxy groups, and ready itself for renewed nuclear diplomacy.
February 23, 2026
report
Preventing Renewed Conflict in Colombia
CFR International Affairs Fellow in National Security Roxanna Vigil argues that the United States should engage early with Colombia’s next administration to signal support for full implementation of the 2016 Peace Accords and provide targeted assistance.
February 17, 2026
report
Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance
The United States cannot out-mine and out-process China. Instead, it should leapfrog China’s dominance by scaling disruptive innovation, recovery, and recycling.
February 3, 2026
1/0
CFR Events
View All
Meeting
Media Briefing: Previewing the NATO Summit
July 6, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With Ambassador Yechiel Leiter of Israel
July 6, 2026
Meeting
The Gulf After the Iran War
June 30, 2026
Meeting
Ebola Update and the State of Outbreak Preparedness
June 24, 2026
Meeting
Virtual Roundtable: Generational Tobacco Bans and the Future of Tobacco Control
June 24, 2026
Symposium
Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: The Global Jobs Challenge
June 18, 2026
CFR in the News
View All
How Choke Points Became Weapons of War, with Edward Fishman
School of War Podcast
July 10, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
How America Turned The Dollar Into A Weapon
Mary in America
July 10, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Philippines Impeachment Trial Deepens a Dynasty War
GZERO Media
July 10, 2026
Featuring Joshua Kurlantzick
Hormuz Shipping Grinds to Near Halt After US, Iran Strikes
Bloomberg
July 9, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over A.I. Data Centers
New York Times
July 9, 2026
Featuring Jessica Brandt
Time May Be on Iran’s Side
National Security Journal
July 8, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Latest Content
View All
Expert Take
Trump, Ukraine, and the NATO Summit: A Love Story
July 10, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The Time Is Ripe for Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks, But Putin Could Escalate Conflict
July 10, 2026
By Thomas Graham
Expert Take
How the Coup Turned Myanmar Into Asia’s Deadliest Conflict
July 10, 2026
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Expert Take
How Trump Brought Non-Alignment Back From the Dead
July 10, 2026
By Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Expert Take
Whither African Solidarity?
July 9, 2026
By Ebenezer Obadare
Expert Take
Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows
July 9, 2026
By Clara Gillispie