When armed conflict disrupts a critical maritime trade route, the United States can monitor, contain, or escalate the ...

The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace ...

China might have taken greater advantage of the Strait of Hormuz closure to accelerate clean energy exports, but other exports led Beijing to moderate oil price rises.

The announcement of a U.S. deal to provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear technology has raised alarm about proliferation, especially in Israel. The Trump administration’s swift move to add conditions puts ...

When a coup, leadership succession battle, or other irregular transfer of power occurs abroad, U.S. policymakers have little ...

Public sentiment is something decision-makers must contend with, especially in democratic states. However, the extent to which public opinion shapes foreign policy varies. Three Council of Councils ...

Since its founding in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has grown a membership of more than five thousand of the most prominent leaders in the foreign policy arena, including top government ...

As Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade, Andy Burnham enters Downing Street with a “Manchesterism” agenda of ...

Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson trace ...

Secretary of State Rubio’s campaign offers no alternative for prosecuting genocide and war crimes that would otherwise go unpunished. Decades of bipartisan U.S. policy have recognized that an ...

In February, when the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs imposed under the ...

The US and the European Union have been on a trade agreement tear, competing to define the future global trading system. The ...