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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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Intelligence Aug 9, 2019 Postscript

The Next Director of National Intelligence

When Dan Coats leaves office on August 15, the U.S. intelligence community will be left with two crises to confront.

Amy Zegart

Coats testifies to the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., January 2019

Trump Administration Aug 8, 2019 Snapshot

Boris Johnson and the Politics of Neo-Poodleism

With Brexit approaching, Boris Johnson will be keen to capitalize on access to Washington. But don't expect much from Trump.

Jeremy Shapiro

War & Military Strategy September/October 2019 Essay

Can America Still Protect Its Allies?

The United States must begin rethinking its deterrence policy in order to reduce the risk of inadvertent great-power war.

Michael O’Hanlon

The deterrers: Polish forces at a NATO exercise in Poland, November 2018

Trump Administration September/October 2019 Essay

Winning the Peace in Iraq

The only way the United States can achieve its goals in Iraq is by working through and with Baghdad.

Linda Robinson

Rescue mission: Mike Pompeo in Baghdad, January 2019

War & Military Strategy Aug 7, 2019 Snapshot

The Enduring American Presence in the Middle East

For all the headlines, the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East is fairly consistent.

Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna

On the flightdeck of the USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf, May 2000

Economics September/October 2019 Essay

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

The Trump administration is bent on severing, not fixing, Sino-American ties. Although many of these policies can be reversed, both Washington and Beijing have taken...

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

Tariff Man: an anti-Trump billboard in Guangzhou, China, August 2018

Trump Administration Aug 5, 2019 Snapshot

Friends With Caveats

The rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf States over Iran is real, but set in stone it is not.

Yoel Guzansky and Daniel B. Shapiro

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, in Oman in 2018

Trade Jul 31, 2019 Snapshot

Japan and South Korea Can’t Get Along

Left unresolved, tension between Japan and South Korea could not only damage the global economy but undermine the Trump administration’s policies toward North Korea...

Celeste L. Arrington and Andrew Yeo

Japanese President Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the G-20 leaders' summit in Osaka, June 2019

Trump Administration September/October 2019 Essay

The India Dividend

India and the United States will never be full allies, but that shouldn’t prevent them from working together.

Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis

Neighborhood watch: soldiers at the Sino-Indian border in the Himalayas, July 2006

Trump Administration September/October 2019 Essay

Competition Without Catastrophe

Although much of the discussion on U.S.-Chinese competition focuses on its bilateral dimension, the United States will ultimately need to embed its China strategy in a...

Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping attend a dinner after the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, December 2018

Foreign Policy Jul 30, 2019 Snapshot

The United States Can’t Solve the Kashmir Dispute

Over the past six decades, successive U.S. administrations have tried to make headway on the dispute. Those efforts all failed—and Trump’s is unlikely to turn out...

Sumit Ganguly

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, July 2019

Trump Administration Jun 27, 2019 Snapshot

How China Really Sees the Trade War

Xi still believes he has the upper hand.

Andrew J. Nathan

Xi and Trump about to shake hands after making joint statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 2017

Trade Jun 25, 2019 Snapshot

Trump’s Trade War Is the Wrong Way to Compete With China

With it comes to competition with China, the United States should focus on its own economic renewal, not protectionism.

Tom Donilon

Chinese and U.S. leaders at a working dinner at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2018

Science & Technology Jun 19, 2019 Snapshot

Why Blacklisting Huawei Could Backfire

China has overcome technological blockades before.

Lorand Laskai

An engineer stands under a 5G base station antenna in Huawei's near-field testing system in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China , May 2019

NATO July/August 2019 Essay

Europe Alone

The transatlantic relationship was in trouble long before Trump began inveighing against the EU, NATO, and European carmakers. What will it take to revive it?

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad

A mural attributed to the British artist Banksy at the Port of Dover in the United Kingdom, December 2018

Mike Pompeo Jun 5, 2019 Snapshot

American Foreign Policy Adrift

Mike Pompeo has outlined a foreign policy based on realism and a careful articulation of American interests. Unfortunately, the policies of Trump and his...

Brett McGurk

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Berlin, May 2019

War & Military Strategy Jun 4, 2019 Snapshot

What a War With Iran Would Look Like

As tensions between the Iran and United States rise, Ilan Goldenberg examines how a potential war between the two might unfold.

Ilan Goldenberg

Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard at a parade in Tehran, September 2011

Post-Conflict Reconstruction May 30, 2019 Snapshot

Libya’s New Civil War

By staving off foreign interference, safeguarding Libya’s oil resources, and wielding punitive measures, the United States could begin to steer Libya’s antagonists...

Frederic Wehrey and Wolfram Lacher

Fighters aligned with the GNA clash with Haftar's forces on the outskirts of Libya, May 2019

U.S. Foreign Policy May 29, 2019 Snapshot

This Is Not a Great-Power Competition

Conceiving of world politics today as a new great-power competition risks misunderstanding both the character of today’s threats and the source of the United States’...

Michael J. Mazarr

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 2017

War & Military Strategy July/August 2019 Review Essay

The Last War—and the Next?

The U.S. Army’s official history of the Iraq war erodes the tenuous consensus on what went wrong in Iraq and thus makes another damaging conflict—this time with Iran...

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The Next Director of National Intelligence

Boris Johnson and the Politics of Neo-Poodleism

Can America Still Protect Its Allies?

Winning the Peace in Iraq

The Enduring American Presence in the Middle East

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

Friends With Caveats

Japan and South Korea Can’t Get Along

The India Dividend

Competition Without Catastrophe

The United States Can’t Solve the Kashmir Dispute

How China Really Sees the Trade War

Trump’s Trade War Is the Wrong Way to Compete With China

Why Blacklisting Huawei Could Backfire

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American Foreign Policy Adrift

What a War With Iran Would Look Like

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This Is Not a Great-Power Competition

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