Column: Brent Scowcroft, the model national security adviser
Few people have had a greater impact on U.S. national security affairs over the last 40 years than Brent Scowcroft, who died last week at age 95. Presidents from Richard...
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Column: What Pompeo gets right — and wrong — about China
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. "What do the American people have to...
Commentary: Trump’s epic fail: His gambit with Iran drives Tehran toward China
In May 2018, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal because it was "defective at its core." But if Tehran were willing to negotiate...
Column: The questions we should be asking about the Russian bounties on US troops
Recent press reports that Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American and coalition forces in Afghanistan raise many troubling questions. One is the question that often preoccupies Washington — what...
Commentary: Trump’s transactional approach is eroding global alliances
The United States has for decades deployed large numbers of its military forces overseas. Today, some 170,000 troops are stationed in more than 150 countries. But the vast majority of...
Commentary: Trump’s rejection of WHO and other global pacts leaves America on its own
President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he would terminate U.S. membership in the World Health Organization is but the latest in a long list of decisions he has made...
Commentary: Our new Cold War with China: Not like the old Cold War
Are the United States and China heading for a new Cold War? Judging by some of the rhetoric and policies emanating from Beijing and Washington, it sure looks that way....
Commentary: No, we’re not at ‘war.’ The dangers of how we talk about the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We are at war." So declared Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, three months into the fight against the novel coronavirus. If nothing else, it's a sentiment...
Commentary: Who failed in the coronavirus response? A look at the timeline
On Dec. 31, the World Health Organization was notified by Chinese health authorities of patients showing up with pneumonia of unknown causes. Less than four months later, more than 2.5...
Commentary: Amid the pandemic, a sobering lesson. More, not less, international cooperation needed.
For the past 30 years, international politics have been shaped by two fundamental realities: America's unrivaled power and the forces of globalization. While already waning for some time, both realities...