The era of increasingly free and extensive international trade, built on a rules-based system that the United States helped ...

Unfortunately for Big Tech, such a war may be about to erupt. The Trump administration’s evident contempt for Europe may not ...

During Trump’s first administration, these goals were largely aspirational. He and his officials frequently invoked the ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power competition heats up again, today’s U.S. policymakers may be tempted to try to ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending to two percent of its GDP by 2027. The country’s new prime minister, ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

In struggling democracies around the world, small cliques of politicians, business elites, and politicians with business ...

To prevent its findings from being blocked or watered down by the defense department’s bureaucracy, ONA was instructed to ...

Trump’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vice President JD Vance’s public attacks on the domestic policies of ...

He has rapidly warmed relations with Russia in hopes of ending the war in Ukraine. His “America first” foreign policy is ...

IVO H. DAALDER is Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and served as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from ...