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…

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

In the year since a gunman butchered nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the United States has suffered at least forty school shootings—perhaps most notably…

The Good Friday Agreement offers lessons for trying to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.

The pandemic is exacerbating a decline of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. To combat the trend, the United States and other partners should commit to the painstaking work of bolstering democratic…

Many of the supposedly unprecedented features of contemporary politics have familiar echoes in earlier American history, and so the best mirror in which to see our present moment clearly could be our…

This week, White House national security adviser John Bolton attacked the International Criminal Court. Instead, he should be supporting this important institution.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine violates the UN Charter and cannot be justified under international law as an act of self-defense or humanitarian intervention.

The problem of fake news has been with us from the beginning of the Republic, and American democracy was even worse at dealing with it then than it is now.