CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett writes that the United States cannot afford to reduce its foreign assistance spending, even though it faces its toughest budgetary challenge since the Great Depression.

Watch Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of IBM Corporation, discuss the importance of technology to modern lives, from health care and infrastructure to the financial markets.

Listen to Michael T. Osterholm, director of research and policy at the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease, discuss the need for pandemic preparedness and offer suggestions for a detailed response strategy involving the public and private sectors as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.

Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.

Pathological hubris is a disease that can plague leaders and threaten international security. Doctors must put transparency ahead of confidentiality and disclose leaders' sicknesses to the public.

China increasingly asserts itself as an emerging economic superpower, but the country also continues to face high-profile setbacks that tarnish its brand.

President Bush's AIDS initiative, reauthorized for another five years this summer, wins widespread praise even from those highly critical of other administration policies. Yet some health experts worry AIDS funding has grow disproportionately large compared with other U.S. development spending.

In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.

The United States can curb its own emissions and encourage energy effeciency and the development of clean-energy technology worldwide by rethinking carbon regimes.

Development experts have long lamented the negative effects of brain drain on Africa. Some economists now argue the benefits outweigh the costs.

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Don Oberdorfer, an expert on the two Koreas, says the recent street protests ostensibly against the import of U.S. beef are much more political protests against the new conservative government in Seoul.

A primer explaining the various factors pushing up global food prices, from energy prices to market speculation.

A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and The Economist.

Listen to a discussion of maternal health issues and how central they should be to the global health agenda.

This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Listen to experts discuss ways to better incorporate maternal health into the global health agenda.

This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Listen to experts discuss the relationship between maternal health and global health in general.

This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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In this Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, Laurie A. Garrett addresses the mistakes in humanitarian food polices and maps out a better way forward.

Experts warn of a humanitarian tragedy in Myanmar, but the country's government continues to block widespread access for aid workers.

Myanmar's disaster is compounded by its government, which appears to be restricting aid for political reasons.

Beijing has pursued increasing media regulations under President Hu Jintao. But as a flourishing China expands its international influence, many of its citizens hunger for a free flow of information.

Foreign governments, non-state actors, and criminal networks are increasingly targeting the computerized infrastructures of Western powers, leading some experts to predict a new era of cyber-based warfare.

The government’s quest to use new technology to track terrorist threats is raising fresh concerns about privacy and free speech.

A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist. [Editor's Note: In the original version of this podcast, CFR.org Editor Michael Moran mischaracterized China's use of a missile to destroy one of its own satellites in January, 2007].

Steve Radelet, an expert on African developmental issues, considers the long-term impact of President Bush’s policies toward Africa.

A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.

Listen to Laurie Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, examine the current dialogue on containing and curtailing pandemics as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.

As debate over changes to an expanded domestic-spying program rages in Congress, the future of foreign intelligence gathering is in question.