The hard-nosed realism of foreign policy during the Trump administration marks a significant shift toward recognizing zones of influence dominated by great powers. This approach positions China as an ...

In mid-August, the Taliban marked the fourth anniversary of their ascension to power in Afghanistan. During this period, the movement has maintained control over Afghanistan and succeeded in ...

The foreign-policy experts and practitioners who have devoted their careers to liberal causes have had a rough six months. Since U.S. President Donald Trump reentered office, he has upended their life ...

Making foreign policy is a responsibility that cannot and must not be treated as if the world were a neutral space of ideas where all approaches are equally safe and without consequences. When ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

George W. Bush has embraced two main principles in foreign policy, and his U-turn on Israel marks the repudiation of both. This, oddly, is a good thing. Foreign policy principles must be treated as ...

For those who believe that might should not make right, the world today seems to offer little hope. Russia is still trying to seize territory from Ukraine in its illegal war of conquest, and U.S.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. After the Labour Party’s landslide victory that ended fourteen years of ...

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia speaks at the press conference following the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 4, 2023. Credit: ASEAN Secretariat/Kusuma Pandu ...

Over the past two years, the Tea Parties have become a national movement in opposition to President Barack Obama's domestic political agenda, advocating conservative positions on issues such as ...

Foreign Affairs analysts have expressed the view that Nigeria’s foreign policy under President Bola Tinubu since his assumption of office on May 29, 2023, has been a mixed bag of the old and the new.