U.S. Foreign Policy

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Al Qaeda's elusive leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, U.S. President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

The death of Ayman al-Zawahri and the future of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Trans-Atlantic cooperation and the international order after the US election

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Children look at wreckage of a vehicle oil and tires store hit by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Ending the Yemen war is both a strategic and humanitarian imperative

John R. Allen and Bruce Riedel

Monday, November 16, 2020

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chairs the 4th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Summit as part of the 37th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

RCEP: A new trade agreement that will shape global economics and politics

Peter A. Petri and Michael Plummer

Monday, November 16, 2020

BEIJING, CHINA.- The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in (left) and the president of China, Xi Jinping, shake hands before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 23, 2019 .

China’s gambit on the Korean Peninsula

November 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2019 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

First things first: US-Korea policy in the Biden administration

Jonathan D. Pollack

November 2020

FILE PHOTO: South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2020. Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool via REUTERS

Retreat from the rock: How a pullback in coal lending by China, Korea, and the United States could change geopolitics and the climate

November 2020

FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Hopes and doubts in Beijing: Resetting U.S.-Chinese relations won’t be easy

Foreign Affairs Friday, November 13, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in sign the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreementon during a ceremony on the sidelines of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 24, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Great power competition and Asia’s economic architecture

November 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S President Donald Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

A nuclear strike should require more than one person’s order

Friday, November 13, 2020