In January, China condemned the United States’ capture and arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Brazil reacted to ...

The honors for Xi exceed what Trump got in Beijing, but the asymmetry goes beyond the pageantry. A quick brief on ten issues ...

Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. For the fifth time, U.S. President Donald Trump ascended the marble dais to deliver his ...

Long-standing educational programs such as Fulbright, Boren, and the Critical Language Scholarship are all suspended. A ...

CFR’s Steven Cook explains what Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s direct appeal to President Donald Trump reveals ...

The second of four meetings in 2026 between the leaders of the United States and China is unlikely to produce any major ...

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Thirty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty bars ...

Recent escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war has halted the Black Sea grain trade and metastasized into a war on the global food system. Combined with drought in the Northern Hemisphere, a looming ...

Seven candidates are vying to succeed António Guterres as the United Nations’ tenth leader since 1946. Who are they, how are they selected, and what challenges will they face in the role?

Heads of state and government are converging on New York City as the UN General Assembly (UNGA) kicks off annual high-level ...

The eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly convenes tomorrow. Heads of state and foreign ministers will ...