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President Mike Froman introduces CFR’s Climate Realism Initiative, a novel and pragmatic approach to U.S. energy and climate policy. Led by CFR Senior Fellow Varun Sivaram, charts a new course, one that is realistic about the grave national security and economic risks of climate change and realist in assessing that countries will compete and pursue policies to advance their own interests. Learn more about the Climate Realism Initiative: https://on.cfr.org/3EbMPsU Watch our multi-part event, headlined by a keynote address from former Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz: https://on.cfr.org/3Ed8Bwu

The type of deal likely to emerge from U.S.-Iran nuclear talks this weekend will depend on what’s changed and what remains the same since the Iran nuclear agreement was negotiated in 2015, explains CFR President Mike Froman.

Read The World This Week newsletter for CFR analysis on the week's biggest foreign policy news stories, including President Mike Froman outlining U.S.-Iran talks on Tehran’s nuclear program.

🚀The CLIMATE REALISM INITIATIVE has launched (full recordings at the link below)! I'm so grateful to the world-class team at the Council on Foreign Relations and to President Mike Froman for elevating climate and energy as one of CFR's four strategic initiatives. 📷Pictures below from the stellar lineup, headlined by our keynote speaker Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. Our phenomenal panels included: 🔥Navigating the Geopolitics of a Warming World, with Alice C. Hill, Sherri Goodman, and the NYT's David Wallace-Wells 🔋Accelerating Clean Tech Innovation and US Competitiveness with David M. Hart, Rachel Pritzker, David Livingston, Neil Chatterjee, and Josh Freed 🌎Averting Catastrophic Climate Change, with Maureen H., David Keith, and David G. Victor 📺WATCH all of the fantastic sessions HERE: https://lnkd.in/e5z4k2Cs 🌐And VISIT our CLIMATE REALISM website here: https://lnkd.in/ewBg7ecr With so many thanks to Deputy Director Lindsay Iversen, Mia Beams, and the whole team as well as CFR's leadership Shannon K. O'Neil Millie Tran Nancy Bodurtha Irina Faskianos Steven Bennett, and so many more (shoutout Jeremy Sherlick and team for the 🔥videos)

At a disconcerting moment of global democratic backsliding, Korea provides an instructive case of how basic norms of the rule of law and constitutional democracy can be restored, writes John Delury.

The rise and fall of great powers often begins with flawed self-diagnosis, write Kurt M. Campbell and CFR expert Rush Doshi. https://on.cfr.org/4lqPgsk

Amidst the opening salvos of President Donald Trump’s global trade war, the Mar-a-Lago Accord, a series of financial policy proposals aimed at bolstering domestic U.S. manufacturing, could be the biggest change in the world’s bond and currency markets since the 1980s. CFR finance and macroeconomics expert Rebecca Patterson explains the rationale behind those complicated and risky policies, breaking down the potential consequences of the accord if it is implemented.

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. Find out more:

While a Mar-a-Lago Accord might sound like a strategic move, it is unlikely to achieve the desired trade rebalance, writes Zongyuan Zoe Liu.