While Ukraine’s acceptance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appears unattainable, armed neutrality may be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An oil-exporting country’s “fiscal breakeven” oil price is the minimum price per barrel that the country needs in order to meet its expected spending needs while balancing its budget (figure 1).

Although Afghan women and girls have made strides in education, the economy, health care, politics, and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile.

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater recognition and even self-determination from a country-specific issue to a ...