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Research Associate Ethan Kessler explains the benefits and drawbacks of what’s become a major US foreign policy tool.

African cities have emerged as proxy arenas where different modes of international relations are given effect through the development of infrastructure.

"Bipartisan consensus (on the scope of the threat) needs to be reconsidered because the wrong diagnosis could yield the wrong, or even dangerous, prescriptions," Paul Heer writes.

Washington has started selling arms that serve a "porcupine" defense strategy to Taiwan. Whether Taipei fully embraces this new approach remains to be seen.

"We have to deal with China and the way to deal with it is to engage with it," argues Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer in the Wire China.

This book provides the non-specialist reader with the background to understand the debates about trade.

The success of ambitious states will be determined by their ability to shape global infrastructures and the cities they connect around the world.

President Yoon will likely sell the idea of “lining up major investments coming into South Korea from American companies,” says Karl Friedhoff.

Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

Deborah Amos, Bobby Ghosh, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Biden-era surveys affirm continued support for the intelligence community but also signal growing partisanship.

“Both sides continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.

Latin America expert Peter Schechter and veteran diplomat Cecile Shea join this week’s Deep Dish to discuss varying opinions on Venezuela’s two claimants to power, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro.

While some areas of the world continue to see population growth—many countries in Africa, for example—fertility rates are falling everywhere else. What does that mean for geopolitics?

China's Zero-COVID policy was "meant to be living proof of a superior system of governance," writes Kris Hartley in the Diplomat.

Blinken’s China visit “could pave the way for a direct summit between US President Joe Biden and Xi,” writes Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast.