Commentary and Analysis

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.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Ryan Heath, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

We explore how the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya forever changed the way the US government protects its representatives abroad.

Sixty-one percent of the US public is uneasy with only the president having the power to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

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

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

"The only viable exit ramp is substantive diplomacy aimed at deescalation, mutual understanding, and incremental attention to each other’s core concerns," Paul Heer writes.

Deb Amos, Nirmal Ghosh, and Gideon Rachman join guest host Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the week's top news stories.