How Much Punishment for a Lasting Peace?
To avoid perpetuating an armed conflict that has already lasted over 50 years, the Colombian government is talking with its political opposition, led by former President Álvaro Uribe of the right-wing...
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As soon as he is sworn in on January 20, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a range of difficult foreign policy challenges, from Russian adventurism in Eastern Europe and the Middle East,...
View ArticleThe Roots of the Turkish Crisis
On July 15, 2016, a group of Turkish soldiers initiated an attempted coup. They flew attack helicopters and F16 fighter jets, drove tanks down the streets of Ankara and Istanbul, bombed the parliament...
View ArticleThe Financial System of the Future
The global financial system is in the midst of profound transformation. This shift represents both a great opportunity for the United States in terms of job creation and potential growth and a new set...
View ArticleObama’s Flawed Foreign Policy
Barack Obama’s foreign policy changed the world permanently, from who has a voice at the UN to who has access to nuclear materials. His eight years in office featured epochal developments over which he...
View ArticleTaking on ISIS—and Assad
The civil wars in Syria and Iraq have transformed the jihadist threat to the United States. For the first time, a jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has been able to combine...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleTrump’s Doctrine of Unpredictability
Does Donald Trump have a foreign policy? During the transition period alone, the President: broke decades of tradition and talked to the President of Taiwan; condemned China for seizing a U.S....
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The civil wars in Syria and Iraq have transformed the jihadist threat to the United States. For the first time, a jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has been able to combine...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleThe Mounting Threats of Climate Change
Once considered a back-burner domestic policy issue, the environment—particularly the urgent need to curb climate change—has emerged as a pressing foreign policy and national security challenge....
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleTaking on ISIS—and Assad
The civil wars in Syria and Iraq have transformed the jihadist threat to the United States. For the first time, a jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has been able to combine...
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleThe Financial System of the Future
The global financial system is in the midst of profound transformation. This shift represents both a great opportunity for the United States in terms of job creation and potential growth and a new set...
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
View ArticleConfronting the Pandemic Threat
Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than one million deaths in just a...
View ArticleWhere in the World Are We?
To judge from the Republican primary campaign as it played out over late 2015 and early 2016, the United States is a pitiful giant in decline, outmaneuvered by Russia and China and besieged by...
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