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Is Trump a Normal Foreign-Policy President?

Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 has offered quite the test: What does it mean for the United States to elect a leader with no experience in government, little knowledge of foreign policy, and an explicit disdain for expertise?

Elizabeth N. Saunders

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Arms Control & Disarmament Mar 16, 2020 Snapshot

Peace Hasn’t Broken Out in Afghanistan

The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on February 29. But a spike in violence by the militant group, and bitter divisions within the Afghan...

James Dobbins

Presidential Impeachment Mar 13, 2020 Snapshot

Trump Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy During His Impeachment

In 2019, for the first time in U.S. history, impeachment proceedings arose out of the president’s conduct of foreign affairs.

Timothy Naftali

Trump Administration Mar 12, 2020 Snapshot

How to Lose Friends and Strain Alliances

No U.S. policy toward China is likely to succeed without the cooperation of allies and partners, but getting those countries on board requires finesse and clear...

Michael H. Fuchs

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump in Biarritz, France, August 2019

Trump Administration Mar 11, 2020 Snapshot

Democratic Values No Longer Define U.S.-Indian Relations

U.S. President Donald Trump’s muted response to deadly communal riots in India underscored how realist considerations now govern the U.S.-Indian relationship.

Alyssa Ayres

Masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump in Ahmedabad, India, February 2020

Coronavirus Mar 10, 2020 Snapshot

Science Can’t Save Us From Coronavirus Panic

The Trump administration's misguided attempts to control the flow of information about the COVID-19 outbreak, coupled with its efforts to roll back public health...

Amy Lauren Fairchild

Strategy & Conflict Mar 6, 2020 Snapshot

What Comes After the Middle East Peace Process?

Trump’s Middle East peace plan marks the effective end of the Oslo era of Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking, but a grim future is not inevitable. Abbas and his Arab...

Khalil Shikaki

U.S. Foreign Policy Feb 28, 2020 Snapshot

The End of American Exceptionalism

The United States cannot transform itself at home without changing the way it operates in the world.

Thanassis Cambanis

A U.S. soldier in a camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan, February 2013

Trump Administration Jan 27, 2020 Snapshot

Trump’s Strikes Risk Upending Iraqi Politics

The U.S. drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad has allowed Iraq's political elites to whip up anti-Americanism, to the detriment of anti-government...

Renad Mansour

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attend an anti-American demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, January 2020.

Strategy & Conflict March/April 2020 Snapshot

The New Spheres of Influence

China and Russia have carved out their own spheres of influence; like it or not, the United States will need to adjust to this reality.

Graham Allison

Influencers: at the Yalta conference, 1945

Presidential Impeachment Jan 21, 2020 Snapshot

The Imperial Presidency Is Alive and Well

Don’t Mistake Impeachment for a Congressional Effort to Claw Back Power

Sarah Binder, James Goldgeier, and Elizabeth N. Saunders

Business Jan 17, 2020 Snapshot

The Looming Tax War

Since the early twentieth century, countries have largely agreed on how to tax income earned in cross-border business. But this long-standing regime is coming apart,...

Itai Grinberg

An Amazon fulfillment center in Saran, France, June 2011.

Trade Jan 13, 2020 Snapshot

A Delicate Truce in the U.S.-Chinese Trade War

The tentative agreement reached in December doesn’t mark a major breakthrough in the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, nor does it come anywhere...

Weijian Shan

President Donald Trump during a roundtable with small business leaders at the White House, December 2019.

Strategy & Conflict Jan 9, 2020 Snapshot

Trump’s Napoleon Moment

Napoléon Bonaparte’s decision to assassinate the Duc d’Enghien in 1804 can reveal the costs and consequences of Trump’s order to assassinate Soleimani.

Robert Zaretsky

Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 2020

Trump Administration Jan 10, 2020 Snapshot

The Dangerous Unraveling of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance

Allies for nearly seven decades, Turkey and the United States are now at loggerheads. Both the Trump administration and Congress can take important steps to prevent...

Philip H. Gordon and Amanda Sloat

resident Donald Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the White House in Washington, DC, November 2019

U.S. Foreign Policy Jan 8, 2020 Snapshot

The New Anti-Americanism

Anti-Americanism has surged in much of the world since U.S. President Donald Trump took office—but not for the reasons one would expect.

Richard Wike

U.S. Foreign Policy Dec 3, 2019 Snapshot

Trump Didn’t Shrink U.S. Military Commitments Abroad—He Expanded Them

President Donald Trump hasn’t meaningfully altered the U.S. global military footprint he inherited from his predecessor but rather loaded even greater military...

Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent

Strategy & Conflict January/February 2020 Essay

The Age of Great-Power Competition

By far the most important foreign policy story of our time is the way Washington has refocused its attention on great-power competition.

Elbridge A. Colby and A. Wess Mitchell

Great again: a NATO war game in Lithuania, June 2017

Strategy & Conflict January/February 2020 Essay

The New China Scare

Engagement with a rising China has been far more successful than generally recognized, and it continues to be the best path forward in an age of great-power...

Fareed Zakaria

Visitors in front of a picture of Xi at the Beijing Exhibition Center, September 2019

Presidential Impeachment Nov 25, 2019 Snapshot

Foreign Policy Has Always Been at the Heart of Impeachment

Foreign affairs have been at the heart of impeachment, from the origins of the practice in medieval England through its adoption by the United States.

Frank O. Bowman III

President Donald Trump in Burnsville, Minnesota, April 2019

Trump Administration Nov 13, 2019 Snapshot

Why Trump’s Shapeshifting Syria Policy Worked—Until It Didn’t

The Trump administration’s Syria policy resembled a Rorschach inkblot—an ambiguous shape to which observers could ascribe their own preferred meaning. But in October,...

Frances Z. Brown

A convoy of U.S. vehicles in Iraq after withdrawing from northern Syria, October 2019

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What Comes After the Middle East Peace Process?

The End of American Exceptionalism

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Trump Didn’t Shrink U.S. Military Commitments Abroad—He Expanded Them

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