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April 16, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Preventable Complications Responsible for Most Maternal Deaths

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 5 to April 11. 

 A child touches her pregnant mother's stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010.

May 19, 2025

Trade
Trade Tools for Climate Action: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms

Governments often rely on taxes to both discourage and encourage behavior. In the climate space, carbon taxes on production—which are levied in proportion to the carbon generated—aim to motivate comp…

Sun Sets on BAO Steel Mill

April 6, 2025

Trade
Trade Tools for Climate Action

For decades, the world has witnessed explosive growth in the volume of international trade and the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Those two trends have long been linked, with the rise of in…

Cargo Ships in the Singapore Strait

April 6, 2025

Trade
Trade Tools for Climate Action: Green Goods

Global trade in green goods is booming—reaching $1.9 trillion in 2022, a $100 billion increase from 2021. The World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates that trade in a list of select environmental pro…

Ascend Elements electric vehicle recycling plant worker

February 11, 2025

United States
CFR Task Force Report: Securing Space—A Plan for U.S. Action

In its new report, Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action, the CFR Task Force on Space Management Policy analyzes the challenges in low Earth orbit, where the acceleration in human space activity is …

NASA handout of astronaut Hopkins, participating in the second of two spacewalks

November 20, 2024

International Law
Trump Has Promised Swift, Bold Actions as President. Will They Be Legal?

Donald Trump could take several early actions as president that could draw legal scrutiny, including on immigration, climate, and security policy.  

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security at the Arizona-Mexico border, August 22, 2024.

February 11, 2025

Space
Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action

As outer space becomes more congested with debris and international tensions escalate, the threat to U.S. national security grows. The United States must act now to reassert its leadership and create…

January 15, 2025

Center for Preventive Action
Preventive Priorities Survey Launch: What Conflicts to Worry About in 2025

This event will explore the results of the 2025 Preventive Priorities Survey which polls hundreds of foreign policy experts every year to assess thirty ongoing or potential violent conflicts and thei…

Play Speakers of CFR's "Priorities Survey Launch: What Conflicts to Worry About in 2025" event sit utop the CFR stage in Washington, DC.

June 2, 2025

United States
Tariffs on Trial: What’s Next for President Trump’s Trade Policy

CFR experts discuss the recent court rulings on the legality of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, and analyze the implications for U.S. trade policy, the impact on global markets, and the …

Play U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in front of a microphone while holding a chart displaying tariff rates at the White House.

June 26, 2024

Iran
The Islamic Republic’s Power Centers

Who calls the shots in Iran on economic policy, security, and domestic calls for reform? A look at the government’s organization chart indicates how complicated the answer is.

Close up of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei giving an address