Knjižnica dokumenata

Analize i izvješća iz think-tankova i OSINT izvora

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Top of the Agenda Pakistan said today it expects to host another round of U.S.-Iran peace talks, while the latest U.S. financial pressure on Iran sparked te…

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China that began in his first administration has created ripple effects throughout the global economy. But experts say complete decoupling of the world’s two biggest economies is likely impossible.

No matter the outcome of the conflict between the United States and Iran, China will be better off in the postwar world order due to its global leadership not only in renewable energy and batteries, but also electrical infrastructure and energy innovation.

This summer’s tournament will make history by fielding forty-eight national teams for the first time. But as tensions simmer between the United States and several participating countries, questions abound over how the tournament will play out both on and off the field.

Anthropic’s new AI model has taught itself to hack into software infrastructure systems believed to be among the most secure in history. While there is no question the technology is profoundly dangerous, it is unclear if defenders will win a race against time to protect a sea of …

The Iran war has validated much of what U.S. analysts predicted, and it has exposed how little of that analysis shaped the decisions that led to the U.S. military campaign. Revisiting those assumptions is now essential ahead of any serious reckoning about what comes next.

The CFR Global Inflation Tracker allows you to gauge trends in prices across the world over time. Inflation Data by Country The map below aids in gauging inflation trends in almost two hundred countries around the world—mainly those that report data to the International Mone…

Matthias Matthijs’s career has spanned academia and think tanks. He sat down with CFR to discuss the benefits of observing European politics from afar, the importance of remaining open-minded in your career, and conducting dissertation research in London’s House of Lords tea room…

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Top of the Agenda Middle East diplomacy inched forward yesterday as a U.S. blockade on Iranian shipping continued. Participants in Israel-Lebanon talks in W…

Three years into the civil war in Sudan, about twelve million people have been forcibly displaced. Yet experts say the country’s devastating humanitarian crisis is still not getting the international attention it deserves.

Global dollar liquidity is driven far more by Asian manufacturing surpluses than by oil exporters stashing dollars away offshore. The glory days of the petrodollar are over.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 11, 2026 Harry Sekulich and Kate Whannel, “Starmer Says UK Will Not Join Trump’s Blockade of Iran’s Ports,” BBC Defense Technical Information Agenc…

One of the foundational documents of U.S. Cold War Strategy unnerved the president who commissioned it.

The CFR Global Trade Tracker allows you to gauge trends in international trade through time. The map below compiles trade data from 215 countries as reported to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It displays values for each country’s trade in tangible goods and, for countries…

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Top of the Agenda Israel and Lebanon are due to hold their first direct diplomatic talks in decades today amid fighting between Israel and Hezbol…

The Trump administration has declared a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, betting that Iran will buckle under economic pressure before the global energy crisis forces the United States to back down. The outcome of this standoff is far from certain.

Food has increasingly become a deliberate tool of war. Whether in besieged farming communities in Sudan or in the destruction of grain siloes in Ukraine, it is targeted, strategic, and rarely punished. In conflicts around the world, food weaponization has triggered humanitarian d…

Longtime Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered a massive defeat in his country’s elections, with the opposition party claiming a supermajority. The country’s new leader, Péter Magyar, now has the chance to unwind sixteen years of illiberalism and play an important role i…

The failure of peace talks leaves the United States with difficult decisions to make.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Top of the Agenda A U.S. blockade on traffic to and from Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz is taking effect at 10:00 a.m. ET today, U.S. Cent…

The United Nations needs to establish a humanitarian corridor through the Strait of Hormuz. This would release much-needed aid through the waterway, address growing food and medical needs, and provide U.S. and Iranian negotiators an easy win to build an on-ramp for a larger break…

A lawyer-diplomat with strong convictions helped lead America’s transition after World War II from isolationism to internationalism.

Every year, CERAWeek gathers the most influential leaders across the energy sector from industry, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. This year, unsurprisingly, the dramatic impact of geopolitical instability coursing through energy markets infused the zeitge…

CFR President Michael Froman analyzes the war in Iran and the weaponization of chokepoints.

When Washington chooses not to comment on democracy, authoritarians and their backers fill in the silence.