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‘Twists but no plot’: Trump’s diminishing foreign travel reflects a president scaling back foreign ambition
After midterm elections in which their party loses political power in Washington, American presidents have traditionally used foreign travel to change the subject and more eas...
By Richard Fontaine
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A void to fill: Champion of military gone from the national, international stage
In The News
As a plane carrying a congressional delegation arrived in Iraq in August 2003, the aircraft was forced to make a corkscrew landing to avoid surface-to-air missiles. The lawmak...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘Resolute in his beliefs, even pugnacious’: McCain remembered as tough on military brass
In The News
It didn’t matter how many stars were on their epaulets. It didn’t matter what heroic acts they had performed on the battlefield. When Sen. John McCain was questioning the nat...
By Richard Fontaine
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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
In The News
Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Back to 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia
In The News
If the current global order is being upended, what will replace it? We are getting a clue in the actions of western leaders and their allies, whose posture suggests a turn bac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Mattis takes aim at China military expansionism
In The News
Jim Mattis will deliver a “medium-tough” message to China this week about its military expansionism during the defence secretary’s first visit to the country, even as the Trum...
By Richard Fontaine
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For Pompeo, Senate Confirmation Was the Easy Part
In The News
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is as secure as any Trump administration official can be. He’s close to the president, understands Congress and has been welcomed by subordinate...
By Richard Fontaine
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Has Democracy Lost Its Appeal?
In The News
The lead package of the May/June 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs is on democracy. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with...
By Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Donald Trump v Vladimir Putin feud fires up in Syria
In The News
Donald Trump's warning for Russia to "get ready" for US missiles hailing on its Syrian ally and Moscow's threat to shoot them down shook financial markets and underlines sinki...
By Richard Fontaine
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White House Rift Over Russia Deepens After Trump’s Putin Call
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A battle within the White House over how to address Vladimir Putin is intensifying as U.S. President Donald Trump shows little desire to confront the Russian leader on the mos...
By Richard Fontaine
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Will Kim Jong Un — like every other dictator — sucker Trump?
The Post reports: North Korea’s belligerent leader, Kim Jong Un, has asked President Trump for talks and Trump has agreed to meet him “by May,” South Korea’s national security...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s bellicosity secures a diplomatic coup — for now
For the moment, at least, it appears to be a clear-cut victory — the biggest foreign policy win of his young administration. President Trump has brought his arch-nemesis, Nort...
By Richard Fontaine
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Has U.S. Foreign Policy Changed Dramatically?
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces analyzing the the first year of the Trump administration's foreign policy. To complement these articles, we de...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Shawn Brimley Did It
In The News
The loss of Shawn Brimley devastated Washington’s national security community. All who knew him saw in Shawn a brilliant defense analyst, a visionary organizational leader, an...
By Shawn Brimley & Richard Fontaine
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Why nuclear stability is under threat
NUCLEAR WEAPONS, LIKE the poor, seem likely always to be with us. Even though arms-control agreements between America and the Soviet Union, and then Russia, have drastically r...
By Richard Fontaine & James N. Miller, Jr.
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Jim Mattis warns US losing military edge
US secretary of defence Jim Mattis declared a new era of great power competition, warning that the country’s military advantage over its adversaries had eroded “in every domai...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump and North Korea: the perils of a pre-emptive strike
Days before his inauguration, Donald Trump dismissed the claim from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he would soon test an intercontinental ballistic missile. “It won’t ha...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump to Declare China ‘Strategic Competitor’ in Security Speech
President Donald Trump will declare China a strategic competitor to the U.S. in a speech that lays out an official national security strategy heavily influenced by his views o...
By Richard Fontaine
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George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Former president George W. Bush on Thursday delivered a rare political speech in which he warned of threats to American democracy and a decay of civic engagement, a message th...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Donald Trump is negotiating like a hostage-taker
As a candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a deal maker. As president, he's governing more as a hostage taker. Across an array of domestic and foreign challenges, Trump's go...
By Richard Fontaine
