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CFR Blog: Pressure Points

Elliott Abrams gives his take on the Middle East and on democracy and human rights issues across the globe.

• Reminders About Iran
• Guess Who’s Coming to (the GCC) Dinner?
• Leopoldo Lopez, Democracy, and the 2016 Presidential Race

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CFR Blog: Energy, Security, and Climate

CFR experts examine domestic and foreign policy questions surrounding energy, security, and climate change.

• Five Thoughts on the Iran Nuclear Framework Agreement
• Why Moore’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Clean Technologies
• The Environmental and Climate Stakes in Arctic Oil Drilling

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CFR Blog: Middle East Matters

Robert M. Danin analyzes critical developments and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

• This Week: Mosul Offensive, Netanyahu’s Address, and Turkey’s Incursion
• Netanyahu hands bat to Obama critics
• Four Strategic Challenges for Israel’s Next Government

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New Books

• Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Ashley's War tells the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers in Afghanistan. More

• Intimate Rivals by Sheila A. Smith

  Smith's insightful book explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China. More

• Market Madness by Blake C. Clayton

  This revolutionary new look at volatility and crisis in oil markets explores the conditions in which oil supply fears arise, gain popularity, and eventually wane. More

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Independent Task Force Reports

• The Emerging Global Health Crisis: Noncommunicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing faster than in wealthier countries. The Independent Task Force outlines a plan for collective action on this growing epidemic.

• North America: Time for a New Focus

  This Independent Task Force asserts that elevating and prioritizing the U.S.-Canada-Mexico relationship offers the best opportunity for strengthening the United States and its place in the world.

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• Complete list of Task Force reports

New Council Special Reports

• Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis

  The authors argue that the United States has responded inadequately to the rise of Chinese power and recommend placing less strategic emphasis on the goal of integrating China into the international system and more on balancing China's rise.

• U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram by John Campbell

  Campbell evaluates the implications of the Boko Haram insurgency and recommends that the United States support Nigerian efforts to address the drivers of Boko Haram, such as poverty and corruption, and to foster stronger ties with Nigerian civil society.

• Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age by Gregory D. Koblentz

  Koblentz argues that the United States should work with other nuclear-armed states to manage threats to nuclear stability in the near term and establish processes for multilateral arms control efforts over the longer term.

Complete list of Council Special Reports

2014 Annual Report

Highlights From 2013–2014

Learn more about CFR’s mission and its work over the past year in the 2014 Annual Report. The Annual Report spotlights new initiatives, high-profile events, and authoritative scholarship from CFR experts, and includes a message from CFR President Richard N. Haass.
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Now Available: Foreign Policy Begins at Home

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  The biggest threat to America's security and prosperity comes not from abroad but from within, writes CFR President Richard N. Haass in his provocative new book. More

New Foreign Affairs eBook: Tiananmen and After

• Tiananmen and After

  In this special collection, experts weigh in on how China has—and hasn’t—changed since those pivotal events at Tiananmen Square twenty-five years ago. More

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