U.S. Foreign Policy

A view shows aid at a warehouse where international humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, near the La Unidad cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

The next transparency challenge for US aid agencies: Moving from publication to engagement

George Ingram and Sally Paxton

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

The Chinese national flag flies at half-mast at the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, the central bank (PBOC), as China holds a national mourning for those who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the Qingming tomb-sweeping festival in Beijing, China April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The COVID-19 recession is a good time to accelerate Chinese reform

David Dollar, Yiping Huang, and Yang Yao

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Defense Satellite Communication System with Alaska Range at the Ft. Greely missile defense complex in Fort Greely, Alaska, U.S., April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Meyer

The U.S. Defense Space Strategy works on paper, but will it be implemented?

Monday, July 6, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech following a tour of Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin, U.S., June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Democracy’s defenders no more: Trump’s failure to learn from history in the global COVID-19 fight

Kelsey Landau and Norman Eisen

Thursday, July 2, 2020

A missile being fired out to sea from a mobile launch vehicle reportedly on the southern coast of Iran along the Gulf of Oman during a military exercise. Iran test-fired a "new generation" of cruise missiles on June 18, the navy said, in the first such military exercises since 19 sailors were killed last month in a friendly fire incident. The armed forces' website published pictures of the exercises in the Gulf of Oman showing missiles being fired from a warship and the back of a truck, and a vessel exploding out at sea. A statement said both short- and long-range missiles were test-fired, some reportedly hitting targets at a distance 280 kilometres (174 miles) away. Gulf of Oman, Iran, June 18, 2020. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Unattainable conditions for New START extension?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi delivers a speech during the vote on the new government at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2020. Iraqi Parliament Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Was Iraq’s prime minister right to go after an Iranian proxy?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Palestinian Americans and supporters demonstrate against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan

Shibley Telhami

Monday, June 29, 2020

Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj of Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) wears a protective mask as he meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in Tripoli, Libya June 24, 2020. The Media Office of the Prime Minister/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

The next steps in Libya

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Federica Saini Fasanotti

Friday, June 26, 2020

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, attends the 22nd meeting by videoconference of leaders of China and the European Union (EU) in Brussels, Belgium, on June 22, 2020. China and the Union European (EU) reaffirmed this Monday (22) their commitment to conclude a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement in 2020.

The future of trans-Atlantic collaboration on China: What the EU-China summit showed

Friday, June 26, 2020

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an international conference on the future of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, organized by Pakistan and the UN Refugee Agency in Islamabad, Pakistan February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir

Will the Afghan peace process be Pakistan’s road to redemption?

Thursday, June 25, 2020