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CFR’s press fellow explains how he went from chasing stories across Asia at age twenty-two to writing one of Washington’s top foreign affairs newsletters—and now pens his own column for The New Yorker.

Executive Summary The United States is increasingly ill-equipped to deter or defeat Chinese aggression in the Western Pacific, particularly a potential invasion or blockade of Taiwan. The U.S. military no longer possesses the requisite quantity of warfighting systems—nor the indu…

Debt crises in Senegal, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom offer warnings and lessons for the U.S.’ fiscal challenges.

This week on The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby weigh the competitors in the global artificial intelligence race, drawing on Patterson’s new chapter for the book Geopolitics of AI.  Patterson opens with a deliberately provocative stance: “I think it…

Despite undeniable progress, insecurity in Nigeria remains by and large intractable.

New reporting indicates that Trump’s boat strike program could be more secretive, larger, and more resistant to oversight than previously known.

The order reduces the number of childhood vaccines recommendations and separates measles, mumps, and rubella into different shots.

A defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey shows how far U.S. influence in the Middle East has eroded—and how regional powers are now shaping their own security order.

Long, mysterious absences promote the idea that unaccountable forces are at the levers of power.

Sadanand Dhume has both sprinted as a foreign correspondent and endured the marathon of writing two books. The new senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia sat down with CFR to share insights from his experiences covering the economy, extremism, and international relatio…

This week Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby, with guest Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, discuss the ongoing economic spillovers of the Iran war, from energy markets to maritime shipping. Five months into the Iran war, energy prices are climbing once more. Brent crude is “getting…

The CFR Global Imbalances Tracker can be used to gauge, through time, the vulnerability of individual countries and the global economy to the buildup of imbalances in the current account (of which trade deficits or surpluses are the largest component).  Below, the Globa…

Trump’s desire to end the confrontation with Iran quickly, so oil flows and prices drop, has left him with no real bargaining position. That has emboldened Iran to demand a deal that would let it monetize the Strait of Hormuz and reassert the dominance the region has spent …

Did the United States act too hastily in dropping a second atomic bomb on Japan?

Congress endorsed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to confront North Vietnam without investigating whether the facts justified that decision.

An unprecedented surge of migrants into Spanish territory in North Africa marked the first test of the European Union’s new migration pact and has reignited the bloc’s debate over immigration.

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

Measured in Big Macs, the dollar is too strong. Measured in iPad minis, it’s a modest bargain.

In this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby make the case for their favorite summer reads. Patterson opens with Today Then by Dave Walter, a 1992 collection of 1890s essays forecasting the twentieth century. Her verdict on the quality of their predic…

Margaret Brennan spent her career covering everything from geopolitics to economics, before becoming the second woman ever to moderate Face the Nation. She spoke to CFR about the connection between finance and foreign policy reporting, her advice for young journalists, and an unf…

The joint U.S.-Japan intervention to prop up the yen has as much to do with protecting U.S. Treasury markets as with helping an ally manage currency volatility.

At the July meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers, most of whom were already furious at the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did little to lower the temperature. But ASEAN also continued its trend of saying much while doing …

The United States and Japan carried out their first coordinated currency intervention in more than a decade: buying yen to arrest its slide to a forty-year low. CFR’s Brad W. Setser explains what is behind the move—and why it could be more about U.S. Treasury bonds than the yen i…