Americas

Claiming that peace with the FARC will bring specific additional percentage points to Colombia’s GDP is a dangerously oversimplified talking point.

Although much of the establishment has been left wringing its hands about what to do about the problem of fake news—how to ferret out the content and those who...

Although an amended version of the FARC peace agreement was passed by the Colombian Congress, there are still many obstacles to overcome in order to fully implement...

Every year, ten scholars review dozens of recently published academic and popular nonfiction books for Foreign Affairs. As this year came to a close, the...

President-elect Donald Trump should reconsider his vow to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and consider the agreement's geostrategic...

Latin Americans have reacted with shock to the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency: for many, Trump embodies the figure of El Caudillo, the demagogic...

Latin America’s once-dominant populism has receded over time—not because the region has solved its underlying problems, but because voters have tired of economic...

The United States may be on the verge of walking away from a trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that it virtually wrote.

What, statistically speaking, is required to cut homicide in half? Not as much as you might expect.

The U.S. military is the greatest fighting force in the world, and likely to remain so for some time—worries about a decline are overplayed. But a long-term plan...

For U.S. presidents, Latin America usually offers more frustrations than triumphs. But Obama has bequeathed to his successor a solid platform from which to take...

After years of shoring up security alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil is now looking eastward, asserting its influence across the Atlantic...

The U.S. Congress may soon shutter a government agency that in the past six years alone has supported more than 1.3 million American jobs and generated more than $2...

Cheap oil is generating headaches for Latin American countries that bet on high prices. Here's how Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela are managing the...

The strategy behind the U.S. pivot to Asia has a missing link: a stronger role in Latin America.

Fragile cities—places where government authority is crumbling and violence runs deep—will be the world's greatest challenge in the coming decades. But turning...

Space systems—the backbone of most corporate, military, communication, and even agricultural services—are increasingly threatened by vulnerabilities in cyberspace....