China’s 2024 current account surplus was around $430 billion, below the $500 billion dollar surplus registered by the EU. As ...

Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...

The Trump administration initially expected to conclude multiple trade deals by the end of the 90-day pause but found that ...

Why is contact between law enforcement and the average citizen in Africa so frequently lethal?

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the ...

Steven Levitsky is the senior fellow for democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also currently the David Rockefeller professor of Latin American studies and professor of ...

This symposium explores the trajectory of three critical foreign policy domains that Henry Kissinger, a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, engaged with throughout his career in ...

Lesson One: U.S. financial market exceptionalism should not be taken for granted. The brief spurt of U.S. asset selling in ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers June ...

Since his first term in 2017, President Donald Trump’s trade policy has had two dimensions: one familiar, one unfamiliar. The ...

Costs are mounting for the U.S. defense industry, critical infrastructure, and relations with partners and allies.