U.S. Foreign Policy

U.S. President Donald Trump meets French President Emmanuel Macron in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1544DC4470

France

What to expect from Macron’s visit to the U.S.

Friday, April 20, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron waves from his car as he leaves after a visit about local and organic food supply in school canteens, at the secondary school Guy Dolmaire in Mirecourt, France, April 19, 2018. Patrick Hertzog/Pool via Reuters - RC148066A640

Order from Chaos

The fate of the Western alliance is in Macron’s hands

William Drozdiak

Friday, April 20, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron (C-L) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, next to Macron's wife Brigitte Macron (L) and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump during the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Christophe Archambault/Pool - RC127EEC3070

France

Can France be America’s new bridge to Europe?

Thursday, April 19, 2018

South Korean soldiers stand guard at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji - RC16431E75C0

Order from Chaos

Kim Jong-un has a maximum pressure and engagement strategy of his own

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Reports

A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, near the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - RC1D250522B0

The Palestinian Territories

How the peace process killed the two-state solution

Thursday, April 12, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch TPX

Europe

Germany and Turkey: The unavoidable partnership

Stephen F. Szabo

March 2018

Putin attends a meeting with members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights in Moscow

Russia

Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

Sergey Aleksashenko, Pavel K. Baev, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Steven Pifer, Alina Polyakova, Angela Stent, Strobe Talbott, Thomas Wright, Torrey Taussig, and Bruce Jones

February 2018

People wave Turkey's national flags as they attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the attempted coup at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 15, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC11D232ECA0

Turkey

The West’s Turkey conundrum

February 2018

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Islamic charity organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa, speaks to supporters during a gathering in Rawalpindi

Pakistan

Beyond the Trumpian bluster: Is there a longer game on Pakistan?

Joshua T. White

February 2018

Blog Posts

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to announce military strikes on Syria during a statement at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - HP1EE4E057WDG

Order from Chaos

Trump, promising hellfire in Syria, blinked. Why that could bode well for the Iran deal

Suzanne Maloney

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump announces military strikes on Syria while delivering a statement from the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC135DB715B0

Order from Chaos

4 essential elements of a U.S. strategy on Syria

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, during a news conference at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota/Pool - RC1C9C826580

Order from Chaos

Another date at Mar-a-Lago: Will Abe and Trump go steady?

Monday, April 16, 2018

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Events

The future of political Islam: Trends and prospects

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21st Century Security Forum: The National Defense Strategy and its global impact

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s grand strategist

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Multimedia

Photo from the 2018 Breyer Lecture at Brookings.

Order from Chaos

How can international law regulate autonomous weapons?

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) at The Great Hall Of The People in Beijing, China September 2, 2015. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool - GF10000189784

Pakistan

A more hawkish Pakistan policy

Friday, April 6, 2018

Photo of panelists at a Brookings event on Russia.

Order from Chaos

Further down the spiral: Russia and the West after Putin’s re-“election”

Filippos Letsas and Ted Reinert

Friday, April 6, 2018

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and new National Security Advisor John Bolton watch U.S. President Donald Trump announce military strikes on Syria during a statement at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - HP1EE4E05GLDK

Examining the complexities of US-Syria policy

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

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Developments in the Middle East following the U.S.-led strikes in Syria

Monday, April 16, 2018

DATE IMPORTED:December 22, 2017Cataldo Ambulance medics John Gardner (L) and David Farmer care for a man in his 40's who was found unresponsive after overdosing on an opioid in the Boston suburb of Salem, Massachusetts, August 9, 2017. The victim received a total of 12mg of naloxone. Nurses at the hospital recognised the man, saying he was brought in the day before after overdosing. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Opioids of the masses: Stopping an American epidemic from going global

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Keith Humphreys, and Jonathan P. Caulkins

Monday, April 16, 2018

A view of the U.S. and Cuban flags prior to the signing of agreements between the Port of Cleveland and the Cuban Maritime authorities in Havana, Cuba, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini - RC1FB54A0A00

U.S.-Cuban relations are about to get worse

Monday, April 16, 2018

CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Pompeos nomination to be secretary of state on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - HP1EE4C165C9S

Why nobody should be cheering Pompeo’s pledge to restore State Department

Monday, April 16, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC19863CAF90

A Trump doctrine for the Middle East

Martin S. Indyk

Monday, April 16, 2018