Testing Assumptions About US Foreign Policy in 2024
Conventional wisdom: Elections don’t hinge on foreign policy Christopher Preble Director History teaches that foreign policy does not move elections. Consider the case of George H. W. Bush vs. Bill…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2024
…thus Ukraine’s other nuclear power plants, based on reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s monitoring teams as well as analysis from Foreign Policy this month. Ukraine’s use of U.S.-…
TRANSCRIPT – Navigating a New Chapter: U.S. Approach After the India and Pakistan Ceasefire
…broadly, what this moment tells us about U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration, both generally and on South Asia, as well as possible pathways for future U.S. approaches in…
Munich Security Conference Loses Value as a Venue for Dialogue Among Foes
…for high-level debates on the greatest foreign and security policy challenges of our time.” But the absence of diplomats from countries representing one side of those challenges is unlikely to…
Yun Sun op-ed in The Interpreter on Uighur refugees in Southeast Asia
…has manifested in two areas: the handling of the Uighur diaspora and refugees, and the convergence of the Uighur diaspora with religious extremism and terrorism. On the former, Beijing has…
Rare Earths and Realpolitik
…the UWSA, which governs an internally consolidated and politically isolated territory, the KIA operates in a region with strong Christian influence and extensive diaspora ties. Many Kachin diaspora communities support…
Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Graveyward for US Foreign Policy Planning?
…reviews of US development, foreign, and security assistance programs and authorities. Despite this foreign policy soul-searching, the legacy of the last eight years is handcuffing the administration in the short…
Sheikh Hasina’s Political Demise and Bangladesh’s Foreign Policy in the Yunus Era
…government must also prioritize foreign policy goals based on current domestic and geopolitical realities. Hasina’s next failure was her decision to deploy violent force against the protestors. She marshaled police and paramilitary…