Past Events

Anne Applebaum, Jim Baker, Susan Glasser, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Zoellick, and the Council’s Ivo Daalder reflect on the decisions American policymakers made at the end of the Cold War as they guided the country through a period of risk and opportunity.

A panel of experts discussed the digital yuan’s economic and security implications for China and the ripple effects it may have across the global economy.

Katharine Hayhoe and Rachel Bronson argue that we need to find shared values in order to achieve collective action on climate change.

Explore how alcohol has been integral to social, cultural, and economic development across time and how it continues to affect our world today.

Building a sustainable and inclusive post-pandemic global economic recovery must center women and girls.

Members of the Council are invited to interact with award-winning journalist Philip Stephens on his new book, Britain Alone, analyzing a nation’s struggle to reconcile its waning power with past glory.

Richard Longworth  shares stories on the Council’s century of global influence from his book on its history in conversation with Carol Marin.

Concurrent with the planned launch date of Inspiration4, a panel of experts and the SpaceX civilian astronauts discuss the new space industry.

The global pivot towards electrifying transport has skyrocketed in the last 10 years; by 2030, 40 percent of all new cars sold globally will be electric.

Biological warfare has long been an unlikely, but serious, national security concern—but has COVID-19 revealed our vulnerability to biological pathogens, bioweapons, and bioterrorism?