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The Daughters of Kobani
Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.
Book by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Last Shah
Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many key events—including the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—significantly revising our unde…
Book by Ray Takeyh
Book by John Campbell
Charles A. Kupchan mines the nation's past to uncover the ideological and political roots of ongoing changes in U.S. foreign policy, including the sources of Donald J. Trump's "America First" doctrin…
Book by Charles A. Kupchan
Toxic Politics
CFR Senior Fellow Yanzhong Huang discusses how China's environmental crisis is undermining public health and becoming an Achilles heel in its reemergence as a global power.
Book by Yanzhong Huang
An Open World
Two foreign policy experts chart a new U.S. grand strategy to meet the greatest geopolitical challenges of the coming decade.
Book by Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper
Losing the Long Game
The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—and why it always seems to go wrong.
Book by Philip H. Gordon Middle East Program
Shields of the Republic
Is America's alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted?
Book by Mira Rapp-Hooper
An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and nonexpert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come…
Book by Richard N. Haass
Centralization or Fragmentation?
The European Union has shown remarkable resiliency and dynamism over the past decade. Despite the end of the Cold War and the struggle to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, the EU continues its quest to d…
Book by Andrew Moravcsik