Commentary

In its swift rise to the top, America forwent a single ontology. It is time for the United States to engage in the work of self-discovery.

Experts share how changes in American leadership, alliances, and global engagement shaped the nation’s first 250 years—and what the current moment reveals about the next.

"US allies have no choice but to shift their long-term strategies to reduce their dependence on Washington," Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Poast and Robert E. Kelly write.

The Trump administration's recent posture toward Venezuela reflects a long-standing focus of US foreign policy: control of the Western Hemisphere.

Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Poast unpacks the recent US strikes on Venezuelan boats and the risks involved with a potential US push for regime change.

From tariffs to talks of annexation, Trump’s approach to Canada is rooted in his transactional mindset and nostalgia for an era of economic nationalism and territorial expansion.

Paul Poast unpacks President Donald Trump's pivot on the conflict after meeting with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

From peace and security to climate and technology, Council experts weigh in on whether the United Nations can still deliver on its founding mission.

"Even leaders of countries with strongly independent central banks have chafed against the orthodoxy" of current macroeconomic policy, Paul Poast writes.

The idea that Trump is swaying Russia’s and India’s foreign policies misses a key point about great power politics, Paul Poast argues.