
from Central America and Mexico due to increased violence and acute weather events.įor the last 15 years, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action (CPA), with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, has been asking foreign policy experts to evaluate 30 ongoing or potential conflicts based on their likelihood of occurring in the coming year and their impact on U.S.


The most likely conflicts to occur in 2023, according to a recent survey of foreign policy experts, include China aggression toward Taiwan an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine growing civil unrest in Russia a security crisis triggered by North Korea’s development and testing of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles military confrontation between Israel and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program and a migration surge to the U.S.
