An arresting image from the last century should haunt us in this one. In November 1940, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to deepen Moscow’s pact with Nazi Germany, supposedly...
What happens if the U.S. declines to fight for the Strait of Hormuz.
The 2026 NPT Review Conference is unfolding against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval. Absent strong U.S. leadership inside and outside the conference, even modest success appears remote.
Excerpt President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy is an unapologetic, hard-hitting political manifesto that prioritizes the targeting of drug cartels over the usual emphasis...
The war with Iran is reshaping more than the Middle East; it is disrupting the commodity flows, diplomatic relationships, and financial networks that authoritarian regimes use to sustain one another. Myanmar...
Guess who that’s making angry
For years, policymakers and analysts have obsessed over how the Islamic Republic of Iran might fall. Far less attention has been paid to the more important question: whether it should. To...
Regions in Africa are collapsing. Across most of the continent’s 54 countries, governments are tyrannical, Islamist, or both. Many have ceased to function as states, splintering into warring ethnic and...
President Donald Trump doesn’t want to float anybody’s foreign policy anymore. Washington’s quest to better balance foreign policy priorities and have allies do more is reflected everywhere...
U.S. Withdraws from UN Agency: The State Department announced on July 22 that the United States was withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
President Trump decided to take it away from him
Top Trump Official Adamant on Iranian Nuclear Weapons: U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said on March 16, “all options are on the table to ensure” that Iran does not...
Israel Slams UN Report: Israel rejected a March 13 United Nations report accusing the IDF of the “systematic use of sexual” violence during its campaign against Hamas following...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a historic opportunity at this week’s Munich Security Conference to define what an “America First” foreign policy means for Europe in President Trump’s second...
Latest Developments Trump Removes United States From Anti-Israel UN Agencies: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 4 that withdraws the United States from the UN Human Rights...
In a recent Foreign Policy article, Steven Cook and I highlighted how Turkey may be overplaying its hand in Syria. With events evolving rapidly, it seems that Turkish President Recep...
Senate Defeats Sanders as Arms Embargo Vote Fails: The U.S. Senate voted on November 20 to reject legislation proposed by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and several other progressive senators...
Trump may like the Hungarian leader’s praise, but he’s working to undermine the U.S. on the world stage.
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again