U.S. Foreign Policy

Members of the NYPD Counterterrorism unit monitor a Blues Lives Matter rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on July 11, 2020. (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Counterterrorism in a time of COVID

Daniel L. Byman and Andrew Amunson

Thursday, August 20, 2020

People walk past a Taiwanese flag amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Taipei, Taiwan, August 10, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

China’s dangerous Taiwan temptation

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi speaks during a news conference in Basra, Iraq, July 15, 2020. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Pool via REUTERS

Iraq’s best hope is developing stronger ties to the Gulf — with US help

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, speaks with a U.S. soldier as they stand in front of a U.S. attack helicopter during a visit to Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Stewart

Watch: Experts debate American policy in Afghanistan

Adam Twardowski

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

HAWAII, UNITED STATES - United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) met with senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi (left), a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and director of the Office of the Commission of Foreign Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, in Hawaii, United States on June 17, 2020. The meeting between Pompeo and Yang comes at a time of increasing tension between the United States and China. The United States has hardened its speech on China since the coronavirus pandemic began, and both President Donald Trump and Pompeo have launched repeated attacks on China in this regard, accusing the Asian country of little transparency in communicating the threat. of COVID-19.

Let’s end the COVID-19 blame game: Reconsidering China’s role in the pandemic

Jamie P. Horsley

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Soldiers cut opium poppies as they destroy a field of illegal plantation in the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso SEARCH "JASSO OPIUM" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Poppy, eradication, and alternative livelihoods in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

National flags of U.S. and China wave in front of an international hotel in Beijing February 4, 2010. Relations between China and the United States will be tested this year by a range of issues, including currency rates, trade, Internet censorship, human rights, the Dalai Lama and arms sales to Taiwan. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E6241FE901

Avoiding a new Cold War between the US and China

Jeffrey A. Bader

Monday, August 17, 2020

Presidential candidate Joe Biden signs documents for receiving the Democratic nomination at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington on Friday, Aug. 14.Biden Harris Sign Running Paperwork 8 14 2

The Biden factor in the UAE-Israel deal

Shibley Telhami

Saturday, August 15, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump announces that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a peace deal that will lead to the full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that Trump helped broker, at White House in Washington, U.S., August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Around-the-halls: Experts analyze the normalization of Israel-UAE ties

Natan Sachs, Bruce Riedel, Jeffrey Feltman, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Suzanne Maloney, Shadi Hamid, and Salam Fayyad

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Officials, including Afghan former President Hamid Karzai (L), Head of Political Office of Taliban Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai (2nd R) and Taliban chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (3rd R), attend peace talks in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Revitalizing American diplomacy: Why mediation support should be part of the foreign policy rebuild

Wednesday, August 12, 2020