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Anti-government protesters stand at a barricade made of trolleys during a demonstration at Hong Kong Airport, China August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato - RC1DF4546CB0

Trump’s foreign policy crisis arrives

Thomas Wright · Friday, August 16, 2019

Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C, front), leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina - RC1C12362C10

Is the Afghanistan deal a good one?

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, August 16, 2019

Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatists forces are seen together with their supporters as they march during a rally in southern port city in Aden, Yemen August 15, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman - RC12682D60A0

Saudi Arabia and the civil war within Yemen’s civil war

Thursday, August 15, 2019

FILE PHOTO: A Long March-3B rocket carrying Chang'e 4 lunar probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China December 8, 2018. To match Insight SPACE-ARGENTINA/CHINA REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC17C71252C0

Highlights: Experts discuss how the US can promote security in outer space

Sonia Alvarez, Josaiah Bonwell, Leah Dreyfuss, and Joseph Stevens

Friday, August 9, 2019

U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Ash Carter (L) and Vice President Joe Biden (2nd L), introduces U.S. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford (2nd R) as his nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington May 5, 2015. Also pictured is U.S. Air Force General Paul Selva (R), Obama's nominee to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000084856

Military leadership helps bring together an America divided

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, August 9, 2019

U.S. Marines observe an Iranian fast attack craft from USS John P. Murtha during a Strait of Hormuz transit, Arabian Sea off Oman, in this picture released on July 18, 2019. Donald Holbert/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS- THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1FF5621490

Germany should pull together a European naval mission in the Gulf

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

People gather for a vigil to remember victims of the mass shootings at Dayton and El Paso, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - RC1946393E00

What the post-9/11 war on terror can teach us about responding to domestic terrorism today

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about privacy during his keynote at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam - HP1EF4U1CO4AA

How to create a terrorism designation process useful to technology companies

Daniel L. Byman

Monday, August 5, 2019

Conservative MP Boris Johnson speaks at the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) annual party conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland November 24, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne - RC14F3D93BA0

How Boris Johnson and President Trump risk destabilizing Northern Ireland

Monday, August 5, 2019

Two Muslim women take pictures after the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RC15CA4BC8D0

For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left

Monday, August 5, 2019

REFILE - CORRECTING NAME AND REMOVING POSITIONING Chinese Vice Premier Liu He with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are seen before the start of talks at the Xijiao Conference Center in Shanghai, China July 31, 2019. Ng Han Guan/Pool via REUTERS - RC1EB94296F0

What a US-China trade deal could look like

Thursday, August 1, 2019

A photograph circulated by the U.S. State Departments Twitter account to announce a $1 million USD reward for al Qaeda key leader Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, is seen March 1, 2019. State Department/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC19395BB9E0

The death of Hamza bin Laden and the weakness of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, August 1, 2019

REFILE - ADDING INFORMATION Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds his first Cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, Britain, July 25, 2019 Aaron Chown/Pool via REUTERS - RC1E33F5C480

What Boris Johnson means for US-UK relations

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

A screen is seen in a show room of 5G technology in Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China May 29, 2019. Picture taken May 29, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC1AC1C11160

From the iPhone to Huawei: The new geopolitics of technology

Dhruva Jaishankar

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Pro-democracy protesters use umbrellas to protect themselves from tear gas during a protest against police violence during previous marches, near China's Liaison Office, Hong Kong, China July 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu - RC1304E1DFD0

On Hong Kong, the US must find its voice

Ryan Hass and Susan A. Thornton

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

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