I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: The forty-seventh ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Director, Program on ...

April 2018 Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership with the U.S. Service Chiefs Speakers: General James C. McConville, Vice Chief of Staff ...

China and Russia are deepening energy ties, with natural gas exports exceeding contractual agreements. At the same time, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. immigration system is complex, consisting of various laws, policies, and programs. Here’s what to know about ...

Historically speaking, early failures in space-launch programs are part of the normal growing pains of such efforts. The United States suffered many problems in the latter half of 1957 and ...

Rooted in the country's long struggle for autonomy and democracy, South Korea's robust civil society has long been credited with allowing and encouraging ordinary citizens to involve themselves in ...

The tax treatment of oil and gas investment in the United States has been a contentious policy issue for decades. Reform advocates argue that eliminating tax preferences for producers of oil and ...

With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...