Oregon is a resource-rich, trade-dependent state where many benefit from international engagement, but economic challenges ...

Senior Adviser, European Policy Centre, Adjunct Professor, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin This essay examines the state of the European Union post-eurozone crisis, and assesses the European ...

In his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ray Takeyh argues that in order to successfully combat Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East, the United States must be an ...

James Dougherty is an adjunct senior fellow in the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He currently directs the Roundtable Series on Technology, Innovation, and ...

An oil-exporting country’s “fiscal breakeven” oil price is the minimum price per barrel that the country needs in order to meet its expected spending needs while balancing its budget (figure 1).

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Iraq remains a fragile ...

Testimony by CFR fellows and experts before Congress. In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, CFR President Richard N. Haass discussed the “slow motion crisis” that ...

U.S. targeted killings are needlessly made complex and opaque by their division between two separate entities: JSOC and the CIA. Although drone strikes carried out by the two organizations ...

Competition between the United States and a rising China has shaped the contours of global politics, security, and economics since the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, the ...

Though the United States of America faces its toughest budgetary and economic challenges since the Great Depression, it cannot afford to eliminate, or even reduce, its foreign assistance spending.

The Conference on Diversity in International Affairs brings together college and graduate students and young professionals from diverse backgrounds for plenaries on foreign policy topics, seminars ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Egypt is experiencing a ...