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U.S. Navy/Reuters
How Does the Iran War End?
By Michael Froman
July 24, 2026
Spotlight
Iran War
Oil Production
Artificial Intelligence
War in Ukraine
China
Tariffs
Iran War’s Ripple Effect
Expert Take
The U.S.-Iran Ceasefire May Be Over, But It Is Clear What the Regime Wants
July 14, 2026
By Ray Takeyh
Another Hormuz? What to Know About the Houthi Threat to the Red Sea
July 20, 2026
By Diana Roy
Expert Take
Trump’s Iran Deal Has Collapsed, Leaving the U.S. With Few Good Options
July 13, 2026
By Max Boot
Expert Take
Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows
July 9, 2026
By Clara Gillispie
Expert Take
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
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
Podcast: Maximum Pressure on Cuba
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, host James M. Lindsay sits down with CFR expert Will Freeman to break down the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Cuba, which is accelerating the country’s economic collapse.
Learn More
Around the World
CFR analyses and explainers that address global issues and challenges.
Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
Andy Burnham: What to Expect From the UK’s New Prime Minister
By Matthias Matthijs and Benjamin Harris
July 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
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Photo illustration by CFR
Congress Checks Out
By Elliott Abrams
May 20, 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
54:39Podcast
The AI Trilemma Open-Weight Proliferation the “Singularity Delusion”
July 20, 2026
1:04:48Podcast
Rahm Emanuel Talks Israel, Midterm Elections, and the Democratic Party
July 14, 2026
51:39Podcast
Why Washington Is Considering a Stake in OpenAI
July 12, 2026
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
Crisis Response Playbooks
The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks to serve as quick-reference guides for policy planners when bandwidth is limited and decisions are most consequential.
Learn More
report
Conflict-Driven Chokepoint Disruptions
When armed conflict disrupts a critical maritime trade route, the United States can monitor, contain, or escalate the situation economically or militarily.
July 22, 2026
report
Gray Zone Attacks Against U.S. Allies and Partners
When a U.S. partner state faces a hybrid attack by an unknown aggressor, the United States should draw on various available response options to protect its treaty commitments, credibility, and commercial interests.
July 22, 2026
report
Coups and Other Irregular Leadership Changes
When a coup occurs abroad, the early hours of the crisis are most crucial for preserving and promoting U.S. interests—whether countering terrorism, checking adversaries‘ regional influence, upholding human rights norms, or maintaining diplomatic and economic relationships. Policy planners should therefore prepare for the unexpected.
July 22, 2026
report
Insurgency-Related Conflict
Insurgency-related conflicts often start without warning and can last over a decade, making the pre-crisis and early crisis phases crucial for U.S. policymakers seeking to prevent national security threats and humanitarian disasters from emerging. Effective responses involve a complex set of legal authorities and international frameworks and require the sustained support of the American public and local communities.
July 22, 2026
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CFR Events
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Meeting
Prediction Markets and the Public Interest
July 22, 2026
Meeting
Shaping the Narrative: How Journalists Covered the Global War on Terror
July 21, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol
July 16, 2026
Meeting
Cuba on the Brink: The State of U.S.-Cuba Relations
July 15, 2026
Meeting
Media Briefing: Previewing the NATO Summit
July 6, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With Ambassador Yechiel Leiter of Israel
July 6, 2026
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
1/7
CFR in the News
View All
Saudi Arabia’s Vast Oil Supplies Now Increasingly Depend on a Single Exit
The Wall Street Journal
July 26, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
America Still Has the Upper Hand Over China
Foreign Affairs
July 24, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
It's one choke point after another in the global economy
Axios
July 24, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Trump "strangled": new front in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait (in Spanish)
Red Internacional
July 23, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
The Chokepoint Risk
Apollo
July 22, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch'
Reuters
July 22, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Latest Content
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Expert Take
How Does the Iran War End?
July 24, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Set Off Tremors. Is It Still Alive?
July 23, 2026
By Steven A. Cook
Expert Take
Evolution, Not Revolution: Why China Isn’t Pushing Its Cleantech Advantage in the Hormuz Crisis
July 23, 2026
By David M. Hart
The Nuanced Relationship Between Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
July 23, 2026
A New Series of CFR Playbooks Outlines How U.S. Policymakers Can Navigate Foreign Policy Crisis Scenarios
July 23, 2026
Expert Take
The U.S. Is About to Design an AI Regulator. Here’s How to Get It Right.
July 23, 2026
By Vinh Nguyen, Elham Tabassi and Kat Duffy
U.S. Navy/Reuters
How Does the Iran War End?
By Michael Froman
July 24, 2026
- Evolution, Not Revolution: Why China Isn’t Pushing Its Cleantech Advantage in the Hormuz Crisis July 23, 2026 By David M. Hart
- The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Set Off Tremors. Is It Still Alive? July 23, 2026 By Steven A. Cook
- The U.S. Is About to Design an AI Regulator. Here’s How to Get It Right. July 23, 2026 By Vinh Nguyen, Elham Tabassi and Kat Duffy
- To Base or Not to Base: The Iran War Exposes Flaws of U.S. Basing in the Middle East July 21, 2026 By Elliott Abrams
Spotlight
Iran War
Oil Production
Artificial Intelligence
War in Ukraine
China
Tariffs
Iran War’s Ripple Effect
Expert Take
The U.S.-Iran Ceasefire May Be Over, But It Is Clear What the Regime Wants
July 14, 2026
By Ray Takeyh
Another Hormuz? What to Know About the Houthi Threat to the Red Sea
July 20, 2026
By Diana Roy
Expert Take
Trump’s Iran Deal Has Collapsed, Leaving the U.S. With Few Good Options
July 13, 2026
By Max Boot
Expert Take
Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows
July 9, 2026
By Clara Gillispie
Expert Take
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
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
Podcast: Maximum Pressure on Cuba
In this episode of The President’s Inbox, host James M. Lindsay sits down with CFR expert Will Freeman to break down the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Cuba, which is accelerating the country’s economic collapse.
Learn More
Around the World
CFR analyses and explainers that address global issues and challenges.
Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
Andy Burnham: What to Expect From the UK’s New Prime Minister
By Matthias Matthijs and Benjamin Harris
July 20, 2026
- Another Hormuz? What to Know About the Houthi Threat to the Red Sea July 20, 2026 By Diana Roy
- Trump’s New Tariffs: What to Know July 17, 2026 By Michael Froman
- The ICC Has Real Flaws. Dismantling It Without an Alternative Is Not the Answer. July 16, 2026 By John B. Bellinger III
- The Ebola Outbreak in the DRC Is Spreading. Here’s What to Know. July 13, 2026 By Roxy Ekberg, Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy
- 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
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
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Photo illustration by CFR
Congress Checks Out
By Elliott Abrams
May 20, 2026
- Where Does American Strategy Go From Here? May 20, 2026 By Rebecca Lissner
- The Coming AI Backlash May 20, 2026 By Chris McGuire
- Between Two Orders May 20, 2026 By Charles A. Kupchan
- After Hegemony May 20, 2026 By Gideon Rose
- Starting From Scratch May 20, 2026 By Paul B. Stares
- Overreach and Retrenchment May 20, 2026 By Stephen Sestanovich
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
54:39Podcast
The AI Trilemma Open-Weight Proliferation the “Singularity Delusion”
July 20, 2026
1:04:48Podcast
Rahm Emanuel Talks Israel, Midterm Elections, and the Democratic Party
July 14, 2026
51:39Podcast
Why Washington Is Considering a Stake in OpenAI
July 12, 2026
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
Crisis Response Playbooks
The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks to serve as quick-reference guides for policy planners when bandwidth is limited and decisions are most consequential.
Learn More
report
Conflict-Driven Chokepoint Disruptions
When armed conflict disrupts a critical maritime trade route, the United States can monitor, contain, or escalate the situation economically or militarily.
July 22, 2026
report
Gray Zone Attacks Against U.S. Allies and Partners
When a U.S. partner state faces a hybrid attack by an unknown aggressor, the United States should draw on various available response options to protect its treaty commitments, credibility, and commercial interests.
July 22, 2026
report
Coups and Other Irregular Leadership Changes
When a coup occurs abroad, the early hours of the crisis are most crucial for preserving and promoting U.S. interests—whether countering terrorism, checking adversaries‘ regional influence, upholding human rights norms, or maintaining diplomatic and economic relationships. Policy planners should therefore prepare for the unexpected.
July 22, 2026
report
Insurgency-Related Conflict
Insurgency-related conflicts often start without warning and can last over a decade, making the pre-crisis and early crisis phases crucial for U.S. policymakers seeking to prevent national security threats and humanitarian disasters from emerging. Effective responses involve a complex set of legal authorities and international frameworks and require the sustained support of the American public and local communities.
July 22, 2026
1/4
CFR Events
View All
Meeting
Prediction Markets and the Public Interest
July 22, 2026
Meeting
Shaping the Narrative: How Journalists Covered the Global War on Terror
July 21, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol
July 16, 2026
Meeting
Cuba on the Brink: The State of U.S.-Cuba Relations
July 15, 2026
Meeting
Media Briefing: Previewing the NATO Summit
July 6, 2026
Meeting
A Conversation With Ambassador Yechiel Leiter of Israel
July 6, 2026
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
1/7
CFR in the News
View All
Saudi Arabia’s Vast Oil Supplies Now Increasingly Depend on a Single Exit
The Wall Street Journal
July 26, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
America Still Has the Upper Hand Over China
Foreign Affairs
July 24, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
It's one choke point after another in the global economy
Axios
July 24, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Trump "strangled": new front in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait (in Spanish)
Red Internacional
July 23, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
The Chokepoint Risk
Apollo
July 22, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch'
Reuters
July 22, 2026
Featuring Edward Fishman
Latest Content
View All
Expert Take
How Does the Iran War End?
July 24, 2026
By Michael Froman
Expert Take
The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Set Off Tremors. Is It Still Alive?
July 23, 2026
By Steven A. Cook
Expert Take
Evolution, Not Revolution: Why China Isn’t Pushing Its Cleantech Advantage in the Hormuz Crisis
July 23, 2026
By David M. Hart
The Nuanced Relationship Between Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
July 23, 2026
A New Series of CFR Playbooks Outlines How U.S. Policymakers Can Navigate Foreign Policy Crisis Scenarios
July 23, 2026
Expert Take
The U.S. Is About to Design an AI Regulator. Here’s How to Get It Right.
July 23, 2026
By Vinh Nguyen, Elham Tabassi and Kat Duffy