Foreign Policy

Chinese and U.S. flags are set up for a meeting during a visit by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao at China's Ministry of Transport in Beijing, China April 27, 2018. Picture taken April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC187D978C20

Principles for managing U.S.-China competition

August 2018

An oil rig in the sunset.

Lower for longer: Years of low prices rewrite foreign investment in South American oil and gas

July 2018

A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, in this photo illustration, May 2, 2013. Facebook Inc's mobile advertising revenue growth gained momentum in the first three months of the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets, partially offsetting higher spending which weighed on profits. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - GM1E9530ENS01

Democracy disconnected: Social media’s caustic influence on Southeast Asia’s fragile republics

Brandon Paladino

July 2018

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past a torn poster amid the rubble in the old city of Aleppo August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) - GM1E98S046P01

Beyond fragility: Syria and the challenges of reconstruction in fierce states

Steven Heydemann

June 2018

The Proton-M booster blasts off with the Spanish Hispasats Amazonas 5 communication satellite at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1FD95AED70

Safeguarding the heavens: The United States and the future of norms of behavior in outer space

June 2018

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto gives a speech during his proposal for energy reforms at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City August 12, 2013. Nieto on Monday proposed a sweeping energy reform that would amend the constitution to offer private companies lucrative profit-sharing contracts, seeking to lure investment to stem sliding oil output.The proposal calls for changes to key articles of the constitution that ban certain contracts and make oil and gas exploitation the sole preserve of the state.If enacted, the reform would mark the largest private sector opening in decades for Mexico's oil and gas sector, which was nationalized in 1938. The government will send its proposals to Congress this week. REUTERS/Henry Romero (MEXICO - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS) - GM1E98D03ZH01

Will Mexican energy reform survive political transition?

Carlos Pascual, David G. Victor, and Rafael Fernandez de Castro

June 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he steps off his plane upon arriving at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore, ahead of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, June 10, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RC1D1CCFFD80

Singapore and beyond: Options for denuclearizing North Korea

June 2018

Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags as they celebrate after the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian-drafted resolution to fly Palestine's flag at United Nations headquarters, during a protest against Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, September 11, 2015. There were 119 votes in favor out of 193 U.N. members.The United States and Israel were among eight countries that voted against the Palestinian-drafted resolution, which says the flags of non-member observer states like Palestine "shall be raised at (U.N.) Headquarters (in New York) and United Nations Offices following the flags of the member states." REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RTSMSD

After Oslo: Rethinking the two-state solution

June 2018

DATE IMPORTED: September 23, 2012 A Ugandan soldier from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) watches as defected members of Islamist militant group al Shabaab walk after giving themselves up to the African Union AMISOM forces in Garsale, approximately 10km from the town of Jowhar, 80km north of Mogadishu, in this September 22, 2012 handout picture made available by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on September 23, 2012. Islamist rebels said they shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Saturday and threatened to kill every legislator in the country. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force said, however, there were signs of deepening internal rifts within al Shabaab. More than 200 rebels defected near the town of Jowhar on Saturday, AMISOM said. REUTERS/AU-UN IST/Abukar Albadri/Handout (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018

DATE IMPORTED: June 15, 2017 Members of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, sit in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

“In Nigeria, we don’t want them back”

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018