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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy Since defecting from Six Party negotiations on denuclearization in 2008, North Korea has pursued nuclear ...

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