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January 4, 2024

United States
The President’s Inbox Recap: Far-Right Terrorism

Far-right extremist violence threatens American democracy.

Two firefighters as viewed looking at the wreckage of a federal building.

November 2, 2023

Global
What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The United Nation’s ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.

Students attend a lesson at a school in the Tillabéri region of Niger.

January 8, 2024

Elections and Voting
The State of Democracy Around the World

Over four billion people in more than three dozen countries will have the opportunity to vote for new leadership in elections in 2024. Panelists discuss the strength of democracies in the year ahead …

Play Woman voting with several voting booths with the American flag surrounding her.

December 22, 2023

Venezuela
Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate

Venezuela’s ongoing descent into economic and political chaos is a cautionary tale of the dangerous influence that resource wealth can have on developing countries.

People walk past an oil-themed mural in Caracas, Venezuela.

January 12, 2024

United States
Campaign Roundup: The Iowa Caucuses Are on Monday

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Monday night’s Iowa Republican caucuses are the first official nominating event on the 2024 preside…

A snow truck as viewed clearing snow in front of the State Capitol Building in Iowa.

January 3, 2024

Democracy
Taiwan’s Early Warning for the Future of Tech

Taiwan faces online threats in the run up to its January 13 election. Companies, governments, and civil society need to work together to defend against the growing influence of digital authoritariani…

Supporters of the opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) celebrate the preliminary results of the local elections during a rally in Taipei, Taiwan.

February 16, 2024

United States
Campaign Roundup: Donald Trump Says He Will Not Protect “Delinquent” NATO Members

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: The forty-fifth president says he will encourage Russia to attack NATO countries who don’t spend en…

Trump Photo

December 1, 2023

Supply Chains
It’s Not Deglobalization, It’s Regionalization

Decoupling and derisking, deglobalization, slowbalization, and localization. Journalists, columnists, and more than a few authors are touting the end of an era of hyperglobalization characterized by …

The methanol-fueled container vessel Laura Maersk arrives for an official naming ceremony in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 13, 2023.

November 29, 2023

United States
In Memoriam: Henry A. Kissinger

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger passed away on November 29, 2023, at age 100. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) mourns the passing of Henry A. Kissinger, the fifty-sixth secretary of state and a membe…

Henry A. Kissinger

December 16, 2023

United States
Campaign Roundup: What Would Donald Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy Look Like?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: A second Trump presidency would shift U.S. foreign policy in a more nationalist and unilateralist d…

Former President Donald Trump as viewed walking past American flags at a campaign rally.