Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (center, L) and Defense Secretary Robert ...
As climate change leads to a seemingly endless stream of weather disasters around the world, countries are struggling to adapt to the new reality. Preparing to better withstand hurricanes, floods, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Are you a global cooperative optimist or pessimist? I ask ...
SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) -A number of wealthy creditor nations and multilateral lenders have launched an initiative that aims to give sovereign borrowers breathing space on debt payments in the event ...
China’s creation and evolution of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank illustrates a strategy of shaping, rather than ...
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.” That was President Donald Trump’s harsh assessment of the global body during his speech at the UN ...
The most significant issues facing the U.S. and the world in the next few decades will not be amenable to great power resolution alone, but instead will require concerted transnational and ...
The following is a guest post by Chelsea Thorpe, former intern for International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. For at least two decades, the UN Security ...
Seventy years ago, at the Bretton Woods conference, the United States was instrumental in creating a system of multilateral financial institutions that came to be known as the “Bretton Woods ...
In 2021, Russia blew up one of its own satellites, producing 1,500 pieces of unpredictable orbital debris. The peculiarities of the space domain mean that even a weapons test such as this by a country ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...