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WEBHenri J. Barkey, adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Laura van Waas, cofounder and codirector of the Institute of Statelessness and Inclusion ...
The Changing Landscape of Global LGBTQ+ Rights
WEBJan 29, 2021 · The global campaign to secure protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other (LGBTQ+) people has made significant progress in recent decades, especially in the realm of ...
What Is the Iran Nuclear Deal? | Council on Foreign Relations
WEBOct 27, 2023 · Summary. Signed in 2015 by Iran and several world powers, including the United States, the JCPOA placed significant restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief ...
What Is the U.S. Federal Reserve? - Council on Foreign Relations
WEBAug 15, 2024 · The U.S. central banking system—the Federal Reserve, or the Fed—is the most powerful economic institution in the United States, and perhaps the world. Its core responsibilities include setting ...
How Has the Terrorism Threat Changed Twenty Years After 9/11?
WEBAug 12, 2021 · Sadly, the terrorist threat to the United States has shifted from a mostly external one—which it was for nearly two decades after 9/11—to an internal one, as the Capitol Hill riots of January ...
What Are Economic Sanctions? - Council on Foreign Relations
WEBJun 24, 2024 · Sanctions have been used to advance a range of foreign policy goals, including counterterrorism, counternarcotics, nonproliferation, democracy and human rights promotion, conflict resolution, and ...
Funding the United Nations: How Much Does the U.S. Pay?
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · The U.S. government contributed more than $18 billion to the United Nations in 2022, the most recent fiscal year with full data available. About 17 percent of this total was assessed and the rest ...
The U.S. Immigration Debate | Council on Foreign Relations
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Immigrants composed an estimated 13.9 percent of the U.S. population in 2022, amounting to roughly 46 million people out of a total of almost 335 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau data ...
What Is Extradition? - Council on Foreign Relations
WEBJan 8, 2020 · Extradition is the formal process of one state surrendering an individual to another state for prosecution or punishment for crimes committed in the requesting country’s jurisdiction. It ...
U.S. Foreign Policy Powers: Congress and the President
WEBMar 2, 2017 · The U.S. Constitution parcels out foreign relations powers to both the executive and legislative branches. It grants some powers, like command of the military, exclusively to the president and ...