The UN Security Council worked just as intended when it categorically denied Mike Pompeo’s seemingly endless efforts to bring the US closer to war with Iran.
The US is often quick to make accusations about other countries’ violations of international law but refuses to hold itself to the same standards.
Our current level of military spending wastes resources on senseless instruments of destruction, while failing to address the security threats that people in the country actually face.
The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today, a milestone that reminds us that women and women of color should have more of a voice is US foreign policy making.
Europe held serve at the UN Security Council this week, but if Trump wins re-election, it will be time for the EU to chart its own course.
If nothing else highlights the absurdity of the U.S. effort to “snapback” sanctions on Iran at the UN, it’s a quote from Mike Pompeo himself back in 2018.
The Center for Civilians in Conflict’s U.S. Director responds to a recent issue brief from the Quincy Institute arguing that advocates of more humane war have failed and may have even enabled America’s post-9/11 wars to continue indefinitely.
For Trump, inflicting pain on others is the policy aim, probably because it makes him, and maybe even his supporters, feel better about their own lot.
At their convention next week, Democrats have a real opportunity to show they’re serious about the changes in U.S. foreign policy that will be required to alleviate human suffering around the world.
If he seriously intends to be more than a relic of pre-Trump liberal centrism, how exactly should President Biden go about making his mark?
The new Democratic VP candidate has not focused on foreign policy, but the evidence suggests she’ll integrate climate change, immigration policy, health care, and economic policy into national security priorities.
A handful of authoritarian leaders around the world have an interest in helping Trump divide America.
As the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaigns have demonstrated, sanctions as a policy goal simply does not work.
The Trump administration has abandoned climate change as a key issue for the Arctic and has instead turned toward harsh rhetoric aimed at Russia and China.
Top Pentagon officials and the high command are prioritizing the maintenance of empire at the expense of protecting the very bodies that make up the armed services.
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.
Addressing only the offenses of the Trump administration will not help us build back a better foreign policy than we had before.
