Order from Chaos

People watch the second 2020 presidential campaign debate between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump at The Abbey Bar during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in West Hollywood, California, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A consequential election for Ukraine

Steven Pifer · Wednesday, October 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte alongside the ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The populist paradox

Lica Porcile and Norman Eisen

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

White House at Sunset. Source: Shutterstock.

A list of specific, actionable foreign policy ideas for the next president

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the EU summit finale news conference at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium October 16, 2020. Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool via REUTERS

Germany needs to step up to Europe’s defense

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, October 26, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan during a bilateral meeting at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Evaluating the Trump administration’s Pakistan reset

Monday, October 26, 2020

President Donald Trump answers a question at the final debate held in the Curb Event Center at Belmont University on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn.Done An55681

Real problems do not exist for Trump

Monday, October 26, 2020

A man wearing a protective face mask attends a protest against the decision of the Mexican government to divert water from La Boquilla dam to the U.S., as part of a 1944 bilateral water treaty between the two countries, in Delicias, Chihuahua state, Mexico September 20, 2020. The writing reads, "Water belongs to Chihuahua". REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Not dried up: US-Mexico water cooperation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, October 26, 2020

Russian sailors line up onboard a warship near a military submarine during a rehearsal for the Navy Day parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea July 26, 2019. REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak

Hope for nuclear arms control with Russia?

Monday, October 26, 2020

Marc and Debra Tice, parents of U.S. journalist Austin Tice, walk past a poster of their son after the news conference in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Questions President Trump needs to answer before negotiating with the Assad regime over hostages

Steven Heydemann

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The debate stage is prepared to the 2020 vice presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., October 7, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo

10 questions for Trump and Biden during their final debate

Samantha Gross, Michael E. O’Hanlon, and Thomas Wright

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman transits the Suez Canal, Egypt towards the Mediterranean Sea in a photo released by the US Navy June 2, 2016. U.S. fighter jets on Friday launched strikes against Islamic State from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy said, marking the first time a U.S. aircraft carrier targeted areas in the Middle East from the Mediterranean since the Iraq War began in 2003. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anthony Flynn/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

How to downsize the US presence in the Middle East

Bruce Riedel and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

An aerial view shows Itu Aba, which the Taiwanese call Taiping, in the South China Sea, November 29, 2016. REUTERS/Fabian Hamacher

Stuck in the middle with you: Resourcing the Coast Guard for global competition

Michael Sinclair and Lindsey W. Ford

Friday, October 16, 2020

The U.S Coast Guard Cutter Diligence (WMEC-616) arrives at its new homeport at Naval Air Station Pensacola on a stormy day Monday, July 27, 2020. The 210-foot Reliance-class cutter joins the cutters Decisive and the Dauntless currently calling Pensacola home.Uscg Homeport Diligence

The future of the U.S. Coast Guard is in outer space

Michael Sinclair

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Chancellors, guests and graduates attend the first graduation ceremony of NYU Shanghai, the first Sino-US joint research university, in Shanghai, China, 28 May 2017.On May 28th, the pioneering class of 2017 at NYU Shanghai earned their NYU bachelor¡¯s degrees as well as their NYU Shanghai diplomas. The 264 graduates, who hail from China, the United States and 31 other countries, led the way into the hall of Shanghai¡¯s Oriental Arts Center packed with professors, friends, siblings and proud parents who travelled from around the world to celebrate the very first graduation of the first Sino-US joint research university. Chancellor Yu Lizhong and Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman offered the commencement remarks. Yu asked the graduates to carry forward NYU Shanghai¡¯s academic values of independent thinking, innovation and creativity as well as its spirit of openness and inclusiveness to the advance of human beings and our society. On a day of many firsts for NYU Shanghai, both Chancellors also awarded the university¡¯s newly minted Medal of Honor to two prominent figures, China¡¯s former ambassador to the United States, Zhou Wenzhong, and real estate developer, Wang Shi. Both made brief congratulatory remarks to the graduating students, their families and dignitaries in attendance.No Use China. No Use France.

The deception and detriment of US-China cultural and educational decoupling

Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

U.S. Army soldiers with the 1st platoon, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, patrol in Mainjui as local women walk by in Arghandab valley in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, May 9, 2010. U.S. forces are massing on the outskirts of Kandahar for the biggest military offensive of the nearly nine-year-old war, in the hope of turning the tide against a strengthening Taliban insurgency. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

America should stay in Afghanistan until an intra-Afghan deal is reached — not forever

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

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