Welcome to the Briefing Room. This area is designed to bring you up to speed on the most important foreign policy issues facing our future President. The topics were selected by our Campaign 2000 committee at the Council on Foreign Relations where Fellows and Senior Fellows contributed issue briefs for this website. Each includes a list of suggested reading material for further study. As the Council also publishes Foreign Affairs, the leading periodical in the field, those articles are attached full text.

To view the material, select and click one of the topics on the menu to the left. Some of the issues also include poll material compiled by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press.

Once you have been briefed, you can choose Candidate Positions at the bottom of the text or from the top menu bar to compare our Presidential Candidates' policy statements on that particular issue.