As post-Brexit Britain seeks to redefine its foreign policy, the country has taken a strong stand to condemn human rights’ violations and reject Chinese 5G technology. While a step in…
Five years ago, on July 1, I walked into the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs and exchanged letters with my Cuban counterpart from our respective heads of state, setting in…
As the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China are condemned to a relationship that must combine competition and cooperation. For the US, exceptionalism now includes working with…
Assessing the global damage done by the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to gauge the destruction of a still-raging hurricane: it remains unclear what will be left standing…
If Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with…
Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, international affairs advisor at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the role diplomacy plays in confronting some of…
“Last Friday the Lawfare Podcast brought you Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s full statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his question and answer session with the senators,…
“Nations with allies thrive, and those without wither,” wrote James Mattis in Call Sign Chaos, making headlines with his implicit criticism of Trump administration policy. As we…
A recent article on diversity within the State Department, published by the Brookings Institution, quoted ISD Non-resident Fellow Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Thomas-Greenfield previously served as director general of the Foreign Service,…
It’s tempting to draw sweeping conclusions about what geopolitics will look like after the pandemic. Some argue that we’re witnessing the last gasp of American…