As a CFR fellow of more than twenty years, Max Boot has traced the ups and downs of American foreign policy. He chatted with ...

Roxanna Vigil spent more than a decade in the U.S. government working on Latin America policy. She chatted with CFR about the ...

Trump also thinks that unpredictability affords him greater wiggle room in international affairs by ensuring that allies and adversaries are always second-guessing his next course of action. Finally, ...

As USAID's demise concludes, the State Department has grand plans to reorient foreign aid to defend Ukraine and counter China ...

The U.S. has carried out scores of covert and overt regime-change operations since the last century. Scholarly consensus is ...

Trump slapped 145 percent tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting China to hit back with 125 percent tariffs. Washington and ...

Trump’s foreign policy approach is fast-paced and intensely personal. The true test of its success won’t be Gaza, but ...

Advocates for US military intervention have invoked the war against the Barbary pirates as justification. Yet, an examination ...

As dealmaker in chief, Trump has turned U.S. trade negotiations into a series of deals, haggled with Nvidia and AMD on China ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. Instead of 193 countries in the world (the number of UN member nations), ...

On the geopolitical front, the US treats its allies as instruments to advance its strategic objectives, often forcing them ...

Republican President Donald Trump won election in 2016 promising to put "America First," overturn what he said were unfair trade deals and force U.S. allies to pay more toward joint defense measures.