American foreign policy has derived much of its power and sense of direction from liberal ideals. Over the 250 years of its independence, America’s place in the world has changed dramatically. Having ...

Factional struggles around the US president have left Europe at the mercy of competing foreign policy agendas. But European disunity only undermines European in ...

US President Donald Trump started his week by burning two American allies over his war of choice in Iran. He ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea as the war in ...

What happens abroad affects people at home, and what happens at home affects the world. That’s why foreign policy—national policies advancing interests outside a country’s borders—and domestic ...

Amid ongoing foreign policy crises around the globe and as the Trump administration struggles to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, the State Department last week finalized the firings of nearly ...

'Even if the US comes back, it will not return to the position it once held,' while China could play a bigger role, analyst Wu Xinbo says President Donald Trump's foreign policy direction could have ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of the current world order and what role the United States and other nations play in it. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research ...

This episode unpacks three enduring pillars that have defined U.S. foreign policy from the nation’s founding to today: ideology, economic statecraft, and democratic accountability. Economic ...

The United States’ diplomatic corps is experiencing an identity crisis. The Trump administration is hollowing out the longstanding cadre of apolitical professionals and prioritizing allegiance to the ...

One of the last neo-conservative hawks, Senator Lindsey Graham helped shape U.S. foreign policy for decades. As CNN’s Becky Anderson reports, his death brings the post-9/11 era of U.S. geopolitics to ...

On its 250th birthday, the United States should commit itself again to responsible global leadership, adjusted for a more multipolar world. Birthdays typically relive the past. They are milestones in ...

Following is the text of an essay on the American tradition of a foreign policy of ideas, adapted from the just-published “The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy” and ...