Due to U.S. funding cuts, the U.N. will hemorrhage staff in the coming months. That could do lasting damage to the organization—but it doesn’t have to.
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The stakes in the U.S.-China trade war couldn’t be higher. And yet, there is little sense of consensus within Trump’s own party on the best path forward.
Years of warnings to the international community about the chaos in Haiti went unheeded. Now, the country is nearing a point of no return.
The case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia boils down to a key question among legal scholars and political scientists: What makes a rule enforceable?
Precisely because the new movie “G20” is so unoriginal, it can provide IR scholars with a window into the public’s foreign policy mindset.
Seventy years after post-colonial states met for the Bandung Conference, the threat of colonialism is back. The Bandung Spirit should be, too.
Activists in the U.S. have shown they can organize nationwide protests against Trump. Now they must sustain them.
The Maduro regime called early regional elections in an effort to consolidate its control and divide the opposition. Only one is working so far.
Several states that had long been under the U.S. nuclear umbrella are considering developing their own nuclear weapons. That may not be a bad thing.
The U.N. system will likely be able to ride out its current existential crisis, but only if its members agree on what that crisis is.
Many observers assume China will be the big beneficiary of the Trump administration’s global trade war. This will be difficult for two reasons.
Paraguay’s over-the-top reaction to revelations of Brazilian spying was likely shaped by a separate but related scandal closer to home.
The norm against territorial conquest has underpinned the post-World War II rules-based order. But it now seems to be weakening.
Trump’s attempt to shut down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America will only aid authoritarian regimes abroad.
A U.S. airstrike in Yemen reportedly killed 53 civilians. The “Signalgate” group chat revealed how little top U.S. officials cared.
Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs favor Latin America and the Caribbean. That’s more to do with dumb luck than smart strategy.
Treating alliances like a protection racket is not unprecedented. Doing it so frequently and publicly is.