Commentary and Analysis

All too often commentators on the American public and foreign policy conflate public weariness with foreign military intervention with a desire to disengage from global affairs.

For the message is clear: When it comes to the defense of its allies, the United States is now more likely to get out than stay for the fight.

We need a different approach, one that is more realistic about the growing threat North Korea represents.

America's global influence is suffering as a result of Trump's threats without action.

After firing his first three national security advisors, President Donald Trump has just named a fourth, the most any president has had in his first term. Will Robert O'Brien be any more successful than the previous three?

A powerful belief has taken hold that Americans are exhausted from global overreach. Council President Ivo Daalder debunks the notion that Americans want to retreat from world affairs.

In less than three years, President Trump has had three national security advisers: a campaign aide with a checkered past, a respected general, and an ideologue with strong views apparently consonant with his own. All ultimately failed.

When it comes to Brexit, Britain’s boisterous new prime minister is determined to succeed where his predecessor failed.

The president of the United States on Wednesday attacked the prime minister of Denmark because she will not sell him Greenland—and found the very notion "absurd."

North Korea is continuing to improve its nuclear capabilities. And political and economic relations between Japan and South Korea are deteriorating rapidly.