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A new Council report argues the recent series of coups across the Sahelian region should prompt a major reassessment of US military assistance.

While plenty of attention will center on Donald Trump, "what candidates say about foreign policy is another critical issue."

Trade will remain a key arena of great power competition between the US and China, Paul Poast writes.

"The question isn't really one of 'whether,' but one of 'when'" Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, says Ivo Daalder.

Niger is far from the only place to experience a coup over the past few years, Paul Poast writes.

"This coup will likely make matters worse in a country where things might have been getting better," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Western outreach to the Global South should not reject China, but rather focus on the rules of the liberal, capitalist system that the US and China thrive in.

Recent place-based federal investments bet big on the Midwest's ability to lead in the production of electric vehicles and clean energy technology.

David Scheffer argues for Washington to employ "a powerful lawfare deterrent" towards China in the case of an invasion of Taiwan.

Though the protection of the Amazon is a top global priority, drugs and deforestation are increasingly linked as threats to the world's largest rainforest.