Skip to main content
Results for:
US Foreign Policy

The Global Networks Working to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

In the News
Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

The Council's Robert Muggah explores the web of treaties, agreements, and nonprofits dedicated to curbing nukes—or getting rid of them altogether.

Nuclear blast Defense and Security

World Review: Haiti Assassination, Merkel's Last US Visit, Cuba Rising

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Philip Stephens, Ryan Heath, and Elise Labott join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Protestors hold signs and flags in Cuba
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

US Efforts Have Shown That We Need Better Foreign Aid—Not More of It

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford explains why we must change the culture of international aid to ensure that more isn’t equated with better and that short-term stability isn’t preserved at the cost of long-term progress.

Food aid in South Sudan
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

Biden Defends Decision to End US Involvement in Afghanistan

Video Series
Featured Video

Elizabeth Shackelford joins WGN 9 to explain why it's the right time for the United States to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict.

Elizabeth Shackelford WGN US Foreign Policy

World Review: CCP 100th, Afghanistan, Cyber Attacks

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

US military vehicles being loaded onto a flatbed pickup truck by a crane
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

Americans Favor a Two-State Solution More Than Israelis and Palestinians Do

BLOG
Running Numbers by Coauthors

After violent conflict between Israel and Hamas, a new Israeli governing coalition, and Palestinian repression, what would a peaceful future look like?

Palestinian protestors
REUTERS
Public Opinion

New Book Hints at Biden’s Strategic Approach to China

In the News
The National Interest
Paul Heer

Given the Biden administration’s mantra that the US-China relationship “will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, and adversarial where it must be,” Doshi’s discussion of the prospects for bilateral cooperation merits attention.

Chinese Communist Party 100th Celebrations
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

World Review: Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis, Lebanon's Decline, Rumsfeld

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Kim Ghattas, Philip Stephens, and Julian Barnes join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

An armored tank drives down a paved path in Ethiopia
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

The US in Afghanistan: It Was Always Going to End This Way

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

"The inevitability of the outcome does not make it any less tragic, but the tragedy does not make the decision to withdraw wrong," Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains.

Afghanistan base after US soldiers leave
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

World Review: Iran's New President, China's Take on Biden, EU-Russia Reset

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Bobby Ghosh, and Elise Labott join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

People hold pictures of Iran's new president and wave the Iran flag
Reuters
US Foreign Policy