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At this early stage, prioritization is only one of several approaches the Trump administration may pursue. But for now, signs of prioritization are evident in the administration’s words and actions.
The State Department announced plans to lay off some U.S.-based diplomats and other employees, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can go ahead with plans to slash ...
For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...
Former high school debater Sarath K. Ganji explains how Project Solarium demonstrates the real-world use cases of policy ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...
In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm.
Cold War crusaders and “end-of-history” triumphalists may retain some sway over Trump’s foreign policy today, but their careers are coming to an end.
This is the first of a four-part series on U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century, the focus of which will be to explain how America went from being the self-proclaimed “indispensable” leader of the ...
Ever since World War Two, the United States has boasted a storied bench of foreign policy titans who more or less managed to stay above partisan politics to focus on shaping the world order. Think ...
After the Cold War, the United States had the power and legitimacy to remake the world—but it squandered its unipolar moment. America, in retrospect, repeated the mistakes it made after World War I.
Clifford May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and says that US President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy has succeeded in forcing European NATO members to ...
Amid continued American entanglements in the Middle East, neoconservative commentators seek to shore up the tired status quo by delegitimizing foreign policy dissent.