Tag: U.S. Foreign Policy

Before Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021, many analysts speculated that he would adopt an overtly pro-Kurdish stance as the U.S. president. Those predictions were based on his time as ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s flurry of transition pronouncements has made it abundantly clear that the decadeslong era of U.S. passivity in the Western Hemisphere is over. Trump is not simply ...

The island of Greenland isn’t on the market, but that’s never stopped U.S. President-elect Donald Trump from trying to acquire the prime piece of real estate. Trump first floated the ...

In 2019, when the 15 ambassadors on the United Nations Security Council traveled to Washington for lunch with U.S. President Donald Trump, they thought they’d meet the unpredictable, unfiltered, and ...

One of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s most lasting slogans of governance is that “personnel is policy.” Judged using Reagan’s mantra, it appears as though the incoming Trump team could ...

No one knows exactly how or when Russia’s war in Ukraine will end, but the terms are likely to be disappointing to Kyiv and its Western supporters. If that happens, ...

If, as he promises, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can settle Russia’s war against Ukraine, he will surely boast that he accomplished something no one else has been able to do ...

The morning after U.S. presidential candidate Ronald Reagan crushed incumbent President Jimmy Carter with a 44-state landslide in 1980, the New York Times reported that demand for a “tougher American ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Trump’s team considers recalibrating U.S. Venezuela policy ahead of both countries’ January 2025 inaugurations, El Salvador scores a major IMF ...

Whoever occupies the U.S. presidency at any given time can make a tremendous difference in the outcome of major global crises. For a clear sense of this, one need only ...