Tag: alliances

Imagine the scene at Moscow’s annual Victory Day parade one year from now. As the strains of the “Preobrazhensky March” echo across Red Square, a detachment of U.S. Marines enter the ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The U.S. military prioritizes deterring a conflict over Taiwan, the Kremlin confirms Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia, and Beijing ...

This could be the most volatile geopolitical moment in the Indo-Pacific since World War II. Extreme uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s policies is prompting U.S. allies and partners alike to ...

The United States has long had a clear message to its European allies: Do more! Spend more on defense, shoulder more risk, accept more inconvenience, spurn Soviet and Russian natural ...

Europe needs a Walter Lippmann. In his 1943 book, U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic, the famous American journalist and political thinker persuasively argued that foreign policy ought to ...

Sensible people around the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s first three months in office. It’s not just the chaotic dismantling of key U.S. government institutions, the assault on ...

If Europe was already scrambling to backstop Ukraine and bolster its own security before this past week, the Trump administration’s sharp turn away from Kyiv and toward Moscow has sent ...

In handing U.S. President Donald Trump a personal invitation from King Charles III to enjoy all the pomp and circumstance that his country has to offer, British Prime Minister Keir ...

According to conventional wisdom, South Korea is caught between its long-term ally, the United States, and its largest trading partner, China. Though South Korea cooperates with the United States for ...