Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately ...

Trump has notched several achievements — on NATO funding, brokering ceasefires and concluding or making progress on trade agreements. He gave Putin 50 days to agree to a ceasefire and threatened to ...

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security challenge: Russia, its ...

ANALYSIS — Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s declaration last week that foreign policy “belongs” solely to the Executive Office of the President is undermined by the statements and legislation of a ...

The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan calls on multiple agencies—including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the ...

Whether because of his increasingly mercurial approach or despite it, President Trump has won some foreign policy victories in his second term. The question now is whether he can build on his record.

Some 200 days in, Donald Trump’s foreign policy resembles a rogue catherine wheel, turning madly with a great hissing sound, charges firing off in all directions while friend and foe alike duck ...

James M. Lindsay is the Mary and David Boies distinguished senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy and director of Fellowship Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations. Donald Trump made clear during ...