Students often asked me those two questions when I was a college professor teaching U.S. foreign policy. To my good fortune, ...

This essay emerged from the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance.

For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with ...

From Venezuela to China to NATO, Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy is upending U.S. alliances and global ...

In the battle to shape the global order, the BRICS—a ten-country group, which is named for its first five members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)—has become increasingly important.

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. As 2025 wraps up an eventful year in foreign policy, five CFR fellows look ahead to what they’ll be watching in 2026. In charts, graphics, ...

The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and priorities around which the United States ...

The British author and poet Rudyard Kipling was a conservative, even a reactionary. He was certainly no anti-imperialist. Yet ...

November 26, 2025 - In recent years, states have ventured into a realm historically reserved for the federal government — addressing the risk of foreign influence in the U.S. The most recent trend is ...

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Moscow sees a serious revision of the United States’ foreign policy doctrinal attitudes in its newly released National Security Strategy, Russian Foreign Ministry ...