Foreign Policy

Picture of a poster of Japanese fighter planes.

Japan’s future defense equipment policy

Col. Hiroyuki Sugai

October 2016

Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine that is owned by energy firm PacifiCorp and the Idaho Power Company, outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming March 14, 2014.

Energy and climate: Moving beyond symbolism

David G. Victor

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

People participate in the annual Muslim Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, September 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith - RTSPDPY

Countering violent extremism in America: Policy recommendations for the next president

Robert L McKenzie

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

President Barack Obama holds a meeting with Trans-Pacific Partnership leaders alongside the APEC Summit

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: The politics of openness and leadership in the Asia-Pacific

October 2016

A man walks past the Supreme Court building in Islamabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Reconstituting local order in Pakistan: Emergent ISIS and locally constituted Shariah courts in Pakistan

October 2016

A combination photo shows Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (L) and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during their third and final debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RTX2PPTA

The 2016 presidential campaign and the crisis of U.S. foreign policy

Monday, October 10, 2016

US Navy/CPO John Hageman/Handout - The USS Lassen, which sailed within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea in October 2015

A framework for U.S. policy toward China

Jeffrey A. Bader

Monday, October 10, 2016

(R-L, clockwise) French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko attend a meeting in Paris, France, October 2, 2015. France hosts a meeting with leaders of Russia, Germany and Ukraine in Paris for talks about Ukraine which were likely to be overshadowed by the conflict in Syria. REUTERS/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Mikhailo Palinchak/Pool ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS2R2I

Dealing with a simmering Ukraine-Russia conflict

Fiona Hill and Steven Pifer

Thursday, October 6, 2016

U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment speak with Afghan National Army soldiers about their logistics while on an advising mission at the Afghan National Army headquarters for the 203rd Corps in the Paktia province of Afghanistan December 21, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR4IUML

Forging an enduring partnership with Afghanistan

Ambassador James B. Cunningham, Ambassador James Dobbins, Bruce Riedel, Clare Lockhart, David H. Petraeus, David Sedney, Earl Anthony “Tony” Wayne, General John F. Campbell, General Stanley McChrystal, John R. Allen, Lt. Gen. David Barno, USA (Ret.), Marc Grossman, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Robert Finn, Ronald E. Neumann, Amb. Ryan Crocker, Seth Jones, Vanda Felbab-Brown, and Zalmay Khalilzad

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci attend a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 25, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

The need for realism: Solving the Cyprus problem through linkage politics

Harry Tzimitras and Mete Hatay

October 2016