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The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program — CFR's "think tank" — is composed of about fifty adjunct and full-time scholars and practitioners (called "fellows") as well as ten in-resident recipients of year-long fellowships who cover the major regions and significant issues shaping today's international agenda. These scholars contribute to the foreign policy debate by writing books, reports, articles, and op-eds on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
The program focuses on the most significant foreign policy issues facing the United States and the international community today, including conflict in the Middle East, rising powers in Asia, and globalization. The fellows' work covers all major geographical regions of the world — Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Polar regions — as well as the following program areas: energy security and climate change, global health, international institutions and global governance, national security and defense, science and technology, and U.S. foreign policy. In addition, the Studies Program hosts three research centers: The Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics, the Center for Preventive Action, and the Center for Universal Education.
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Paul Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Stewart Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Julia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies
Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
Complete list of CFR Books
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
jlindsay@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
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