International Affairs

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold their party symbols and flags as they gather to celebrate after learning of the initial poll results of the Bihar state assembly election and by-elections in Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh states, in Gandhinagar, India, November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC2C0K98BBEN

Biden, Bihar, and US-India bonhomie

Tanvi Madan, Sadanand Dhume, and Milan Vaishnav

Grand Tamasha

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Multilateralism: What policy options to strengthen international cooperation?

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden holds a joint statement with European Council President Donald Tusk ahead of a meeting at EU Council headquarters in Brussels February 6, 2015. Biden said on Friday that the United States and Europe needed to stand together over Ukraine and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of calling for peace while rolling his troops through Ukrainian countryside.REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS)

Reviving the trans-Atlantic relationship

Agneska Bloch and James Goldgeier

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Al Qaeda's elusive leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, U.S. President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

The death of Ayman al-Zawahri and the future of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to the mission to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri//File Photo

Averting civil war in Ethiopia: It’s time to propose elements of a negotiated settlement

Monday, November 16, 2020

Children look at wreckage of a vehicle oil and tires store hit by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Ending the Yemen war is both a strategic and humanitarian imperative

John R. Allen and Bruce Riedel

Monday, November 16, 2020

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chairs the 4th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Summit as part of the 37th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

RCEP: A new trade agreement that will shape global economics and politics

Peter A. Petri and Michael Plummer

Monday, November 16, 2020

BEIJING, CHINA.- The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in (left) and the president of China, Xi Jinping, shake hands before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 23, 2019 .

China’s gambit on the Korean Peninsula

November 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2019 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

First things first: US-Korea policy in the Biden administration

Jonathan D. Pollack

November 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in sign the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreementon during a ceremony on the sidelines of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 24, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Great power competition and Asia’s economic architecture

November 2020