The U.S. military continues to conduct large-scale strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen to counter their assault on ...

"[T]hat subregion of the Middle East is beginning to be polarized, not so much between revolutionary Islam and status-quo powers but along sectarian lines," CFR Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh told the ...

The events of the 2016 U.S. election demonstrate that more high-level political action is required to manage real and perceived cyber vulnerabilities in election systems. Senior Fellow for Global ...

The number of U.S. regulations—which affect nearly every aspect of Americans' lives, from the food and medicine they consume to the quality of the air they breathe and how they save for ...

In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened a workshop to examine the direction of the U.S.-Southeast Asia relationship from the present to 2030. The workshop ...

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 ...

Stephen Biddle, an expert on defense and counter-insurgency policy, says President Obama’s decision to add four thousand troops to train Afghan troops is "a reasonable first step," dictated in ...

South Korea relies on imports to meet almost all its high energy demand. However, recent reports of safety and quality-control problems at nuclear power plants in South Korea have undermined ...

Policy Innovation Memoranda target critical global problems where new, creative thinking is needed. Yemen is slipping into an uncertain and dangerous future. In early June 2011, President Ali ...

Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy A dispute over whether South Korea (ROK) should have the right to enrich and reprocess U.S.-origin nuclear fuels ...

East Asia has also been experiencing structural changes. Despite some progress in modernizing the U.S.-led alliance system, U.S. bilateral alliances have been relatively static, while minilateral ...

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