Australian relations with China have worsened in recent months and there’s debate down under about whether Australian officials are taking too much advice from their American counterparts.
The Trump administration refused to release aid to Northern Yemen back in March, but it must be released now to prevent a looming famine.
The coronavirus pandemic has set the table for progressives to craft a new national security paradigm adequate to the times, and to fight for it in the policy arena.
A world led by a unified Europe would be a significantly better place than one mismanaged by a fragmented United States.
The Trump administration trying to bring China into talks to extend an arms control treaty with Russia makes no sense.
Only one Republican senator has criticized Trump for sending federal agents to American cities.
Trump’s petty, ego-driven policy decisions sometimes land in the right place.
Rejoining the JCPOA won’t be easy particularly as hardliners are gaining influence inside Iran.
Addressing only the offenses of the Trump administration will not help us build back a better foreign policy than we had before.
The American people need to know, for example, the threat that Russian interference in the 2020 election poses.
With the Trump administration and hawks in Washington clamoring for confrontation with China, it’s probably worth revisiting how that worked out for the US in the past.
Congress recently defeated a measure to cut the Pentagon budget, but the movement pushing to reduce defense spending is growing.
Washington’s abandonment of the central pillar of the post-war order — respect for the sovereign integrity of Arab states — has reaped the whirlwind.
The defense industry floods congressional campaign coffers with millions, and Congress in turn rewards it with more Pentagon spending, even during a pandemic. But think tanks are in on the game too.
The security challenges of the 21st century require a dismantling of the Cold War era ‘East-West’ divide
Donald Trump has bungled the intra-Gulf Cooperation Council dispute so badly that perhaps it might be a good idea to wait for a potential Biden administration to pick up the pieces.
Reps. Ro Khanna (D) and Andy Biggs (R) announced that when possible, they plan to travel to Seoul to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The idea of letting Iraq veer toward mayhem without a forceful U.S. effort to stop it would be considered unethical by many. But Washington should be ready to refrain from further interventionism in Iraq nonetheless.
Even as the United States struggles with the disease, some countries’ relative success reveals the resilience of the global system.
The American public favors the US disengaging militarily in the Middle East. But there’s a small, well-funded, and influential circle in Washington working to preserve the status quo.
For a healthy democracy, there should be few things more unthinkable than never-ending conflict, that steady drip-drip of death and destruction that drives militarism, reinforces authoritarianism, and facilitates disaster capitalism.