U.S. Foreign Policy

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Washington March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Biden and Erdoğan are trapped in a double fantasy

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Jeremy Shapiro

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A Honduran migrant trying to reach the U.S. with his sons talks to Guatemalan soldiers blocking a road to stop migrants from reach the Mexico's border, in San Pedro Cadenas, Izabal, Guatemala October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

How the Biden administration can get the Global Fragility Strategy right

Patrick W. Quirk and Richmond Blake

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

A police officer keeps watch at a crime scene, where two men were found in the trunk of a car shot to death, according to local media, in San Pedro Garza Garcia, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico December 8, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Crime and anti-crime security policy in Mexico in 2020

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 4, 2021

The future of liberal democracy: A conversation with G. John Ikenberry

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FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Is America back? The high politics of trade in the Indo-Pacific

Monday, January 4, 2021

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the closing session of the US-China Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles, California September 16, 2015. Biden's journey to a decision on whether to run for president is taking him this week to California, Michigan, and Ohio -- critical states for fundraising and electoral recognition if he decides to jump in the race. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn

Avoiding the climate canard in US-China relations

Monday, January 4, 2021

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden smiles during a national security conference video call at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

John R. Allen on restoring American leadership in 2021

John R. Allen and David Dollar

Monday, January 4, 2021

Women walk past damaged buildings at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus, Syria December 1, 2020. Picture taken December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Reframing US Syria policy: The road to Damascus runs through Moscow

Daniel L. Magruder Jr. and Rodrick H. McHaty

December 2020

A general view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington February 28, 2013. Positions hardened on Wednesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic spending cuts beginning this week. Looking resigned to the $85 billion in "sequestration" cuts starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and spelling out to employees how furloughs will work. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E92S1U0N01

Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security

Scott R. Anderson

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

A pedestrian wearing gloves, goggles and a mask walks by the State Department in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. After extended negotiations over an additional $500 billion in stimulus funding in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the U.S. Congress is set send another economic relief bill to President Trump to sign into law after a House vote later today. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

To rebuild the foreign service, avoid an “amnesty” and promote functional roles

Jeffrey Feltman

Monday, December 28, 2020