CFR invited the presidential candidates challenging President Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their positions on twelve critical foreign policy issues. Candidates’ answers are posted exactly…

As a potential U.S. Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionize.

Diplomacy could well come to occupy center stage for a president who relishes summitry.

Policymakers face complex cost-benefit considerations when intervening in the market to mitigate perceived risks, from climate change to competition with China.

The truth is that his tenure as secretary of state was often rocky, and as full of setbacks as acclaim.

Nothing may seem more obvious to supporters of democracy than the need to oppose, punish, and deter coups. But defining a coup, let alone reacting sensibly to one, is difficult for many democratic go…