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2 weeks ago | 
rb.gy | James M. Lindsay |Carla Anne Robbins |Matthias Matthijs |Irina A. Faskianos
Experts Securing Ukraine Topics Featured Climate Change International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming. Renewing America Regions Featured Myanmar IntroductionThroughout its decades of independence, Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty.
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3 weeks ago | 
rb.gy | James M. Lindsay |Varun Sivaram |Irina A. Faskianos |Gabrielle Sierra
Immigration and Migration CFR law and foreign policy fellow Matthew Waxman answers questions about the Kilmar Ábrego García case, which has put a spotlight on Trump’s immigration and deportation practices and set up a legal showdown between the White House and the courts. Iran The two countries held their first meeting in seven years to discuss Iran’s contentious nuclear program. Here’s what could come next.
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1 month ago | 
rb.gy | James M. Lindsay |Edward Fishman |Irina A. Faskianos |Gabrielle Sierra
Experts Securing Ukraine Topics Featured Climate Change International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming. Backgrounder Renewing America Regions Featured Myanmar IntroductionThroughout its decades of independence, Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Jonathan Miller |James M. Lindsay |Peter Harrell
Earlier this week, it appeared as if the Trump administration was going to follow through on its threat to impose a sweeping 25 percent tariff across the board on Canadian exports to the United States. Canada owes the United States “a lot of money, and I'm sure they're going to pay,” President Donald Trump claimed. “We may have, short term, some little pain, and people understand that.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Horowitz |James M. Lindsay |John Delury |Robert Kelly
On December 3, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol tried to demolish his country’s democracy. In a shocking late-night television address, Yoon declared “emergency martial law” and put the country under military rule. He prohibited all political activities and suspended freedom of speech and the press.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael Horowitz |James M. Lindsay |Fawaz A. Gerges |Steven Simon
After half a century of tyranny, the Assad family’s rule over Syria has come to an end. Syrians have every right to celebrate, but their struggle is nowhere near finished. Although the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face many of the same problems that beset other Arab countries after their Arab Spring revolutions.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
aei.org | Hal Brands |James M. Lindsay
Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how and why control of Eurasia affects U.S. national security. This episode is the fifth in a continuing TPI series on U.S. grand strategy.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Carl Minzner |Kat Duffy |Alexandra Prokopenko
The newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump has promised a swift end to the war in Ukraine. Faced with the unattractive alternative of continuing to fight without the assurance of further U.S. backing, Kyiv and its Western partners are now considering how to secure an acceptable deal with Moscow.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Carl Minzner |Kat Duffy |Adam Segal
Over the last few months, U.S. government officials have revealed details about a sophisticated Chinese cyber-operation called “Salt Typhoon.” The campaign, which U.S. investigators believe is connected to China’s Ministry of State Security, has targeted at least nine telecommunications and infrastructure firms in the United States as well as other targets in dozens of other countries.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Carl Minzner |Kat Duffy |Gideon Rose
Ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza are at the top of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda, and many expect the new administration to change American policy in both. It may well try to. But unless Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu play along, Trump could easily find himself shifting back toward the Biden administration’s approach in both theaters—because U.S. interests and geopolitical realities don’t change with the election returns.
