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America at 250 Global Forum
The Council's America at 250 Global Forum will convene high-level policymakers, world-class scholars and experts, business leaders, and influential thought leaders in Chicago and online on June 18 to reflect on America’s past and inform its future.
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US Foreign Policy
The forum combines middle powers ambition with great power access. But the US presidency promises a narrow agenda and unpredictable leadership.
Public Opinion
Americans and Mexicans think the tournament will be economically beneficial, while Canadians are concerned about costs.
Global Health
As the virus spreads, the United States is turning inward. Can the international community contain the outbreak without Washington?
US Foreign Policy
A US oil blockade has brought Cuba to the negotiating table. That gives Washington an “extraordinary opportunity” to influence the island’s trajectory and its relationship with the United States. Will Trump’s power play get in the way?
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Defense and Security
The recent strikes could complicate US efforts to negotiate a deal with Tehran, Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri tells CNN. "This sort of escalatory violence, if there's a return to that, it gets that much more difficult."
Defense and Security
Ariane Tabatabai, the Council's vice president of research for security and defense, joins Chicago Tonight to discuss the latest on the war, Iran's nuclear program, and more.
US Foreign Policy
"It’s hard for politicians to look past the next election," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Cécile Shea tells Today, Explained. "But we should also be thinking about what kind of relationship we want with Cuba 15 years from now."
Security and Defense Expert Deborah Rosenblum Joins the Council
Rosenblum joins the Council's roster of esteemed experts as Distinguished Nonresident Fellow on Nuclear and Biological Defense.
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