U.S. Foreign Policy

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony by the National Program of Civic-Military Schools, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 3, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen in his office in the Kremlin as he chairs a videoconference meeting of permanent members of the Russian Security Council. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/TASS.

What Biden should say to Putin on Ukraine

Monday, December 6, 2021

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a deployment ceremony of Salvadoran army soldiers for the Territorial Control plan in San Salvador, El SalvadorJuly 19, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Fighting the autocratic slide in Central America

Charles T. Call

Friday, December 3, 2021

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Why South Korea should join the CPTPP

Peter A. Petri and Michael Plummer

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Display of books published by Brookings Foreign Policy in 2021.

20 Brookings Foreign Policy books for 2021

Ted Reinert and McCall Mintzer

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Democracy protesters in Thailand in 2020

Will Asia buy into the Summit for Democracy?

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a democracy-themed event for the Double-Tenth National Day, at an airforce base, following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vow to unify Taiwan by peaceful means, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, 9 October 2021. The self ruled island has been facing intensifying military threats from China including record number of fighter jets cruising around Taiwan, whilst building better relations with the US, Australia, Japan and European countries including Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto)

The Biden administration is right to include Taiwan in the Summit for Democracy

Richard C. Bush and Ryan Hass

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Handout photo dated December 30, 2020 of USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) conducts routine underway operations in support of stability and security for a free and open Indo-Pacific. Two U.S. warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway. The U.S. Navy said the guided missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Curtis Wilbur had "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Dec. 31 in accordance with international law". U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda via ABACAPRESS.COM

The status quo in the Taiwan Strait is edging toward conflict. Here’s how to stop it.

Steven M. Goldstein

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A bevy of smooth coated otters swim towards the city skyline at Marina Bay on November 17, 2021 in Singapore. Wild otters are making a comeback to the urban city state with the increasing numbers of the sea animals sparking concerns about overpopulation. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/NurPhoto)

Biden’s Summit for Democracy should focus on rights, not economics and geopolitics

Thomas Pepinsky

Monday, November 22, 2021

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai addresses the Geneva Graduate Institute on the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the global economy and U.S. policy priorities ahead of the 12th Ministerial Conference in Geneva, Switzerland October 14, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

How the Biden administration can make AGOA more effective

Witney Schneidman, Kate McNulty, and Natalie Dicharry

Monday, November 15, 2021