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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 10, 2025

Global Governance
Trump and Trade Loom Over Canada’s G7 Summit

Leaders of the world’s seven major industrial democracies will strive for a united front on tackling some of the world’s toughest economic and security challenges. Job one will be to avoid a rupture …

World leaders, with Angela Merkel in the center, stand around a table as Donald Trump sits on the other side of it.

June 10, 2025

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
How Vaccines Changed the World

Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. In a rising tide of vaccine hesitancy, however, outbreaks are cropping up again.

A woman administers drops of a polio vaccine into a young boy's mouth, as children stand by, waiting to be vaccinated themselves.