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 the 1970s and 1980s, there was a tremendous sea-change in development policy thinking, among both academic economists and policymakers. The inward-oriented, import-substitution strategy of the ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The success or failure ...

Despite the Biden administration's tough words about democracy in Venezuela, oil exports from that country to the United States are growing and Chevron's license was just renewed again.

I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: With polls showing a neck-and-neck ...

The current conflict in Sudan—which began in April 2023—is having a devastating impact on women and girls. According to a new report from UN Women, gender-based violence has increased by 100 ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. One year after Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, Elliott Abrams examines the extraordinary response of Israel’s government and ...

Great-power competition has returned as the driving force of world affairs. The last two U.S. administrations have placed this competition at the center of their national security strategies ...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome David Hart, Jonathan Hillman, and Stuart Reid to the David Rockefeller Studies Program.  More From Our Experts ...

David M. Hart is a senior fellow for climate and energy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also professor of public policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and ...