Tag: Security

Measuring a U.S. president by their first 100 days—a time-honored tradition—has always struck me as arbitrary. Still, President Donald Trump promised to do a lot in the three months after his ...

At the end of February, the Trump administration decided to exempt $397 million in security assistance to Pakistan from its massive foreign aid cuts. The funds will be allocated to ...

Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at ...

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan named a high-level panel of international dignitaries to assess emerging challenges in the international system. A 2004 background ...

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...

Center-right incumbent Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating Luisa González by more than 10 points. Noboa, the 37-year-old son of a banana magnate, earned 55.6 percent ...

The Trump administration has only just begun to fill its ranks with the political appointees who will flesh out the future of U.S. defense policy. One item sure to be ...

Foreign policy isn’t usually a decisive factor in Ecuador’s elections. But as the country heads into Sunday’s razor-edge presidential runoff, Renato Rivera, the director of the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organized ...

As China and India mark 75 years of diplomatic relations, a moment from history stands out. In 1954, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the ...

The White House wants to move on from Signalgate and insists the case is closed. But with congressional lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for investigations—and new allegations ...