Last year in Foreign Affairs, I outlined a framework for a second Trump administration foreign policy that would restore the “peace through strength” posture that prevailed during Donald Trump’s first ...

For President Donald Trump, tariffs — or the threat of them — can bend nations to his will. The president has used them not only as the underpinning of his economic agenda, but as the cornerstone of ...

The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive approach to foreign policy in Latin America. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ivan Briscoe at the International Crisis Group about the shift.

Linda Robinson’s career as a foreign correspondent and researcher has taken her through Latin America and the Middle East.

American influence has long been a dominant force in shaping international affairs. However, recent policy decisions are actively dismantling this stronghold. Instead of maintaining a strategic ...

A couple decades ago, "smart power" was all the rage in U.S. foreign policy discussions, largely in response to the perceived ...

After Tuesday's election results and low approval numbers for Republicans, allies are raising concerns that President Trump is too focused on foreign policy.

The president’s real foreign policy discretion over trade applies only in wartime against specific belligerents—not in perpetuity and even against our allies.

This digital series—featuring scholars from CSIS Futures Lab and AI evaluation experts from Scale AI—explores how large language models approach critical foreign policy decision-making scenarios. This ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

Almost three months after the arrest of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, international students in the U.S. still face unprecedented challenges and threats from the federal government. For ...