The U.S. seems likely to stay cautious and deliberate.

It has taken a back seat to great-power competition. And this week at the White House, guess who’s coming to dinner?

Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.

It may not be up there with East Timor, but the practice of turning vast global contacts into wealth has been horrible for American democracy.

In magisterial books and sharp essays—many of them for The New Republic—Steel, who died recently at 92, became one of the most vital foreign policy voices of his age.

The Foreign Policy Association tried to get ordinary people involved in foreign affairs. Why did they fail?

The GOP is turning against continued support for Ukrainians fighting off a Russian invasion.

The Republican uproar about the balloons is pure political theater.

No, the incident does not reveal that the United States is in decline. It shows China’s incompetence, poor planning, and poor coordination.

The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.

The former secretary of state is not-so-subtly launching a campaign. It won’t end well for him.

As support slips for military funding to Ukraine, some analysts argue that America is getting a great deal for its money. But there are a lot of strategic costs that don’t show up on the balance sheet.

Can a nation’s sovereign immunity extend to a foreign financial institution? One bank accused of fraud and money laundering sure hopes so.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

Two years in, how well has Biden kept his 2020 promises on foreign policy?

This was the year the Saudi strongman was supposed to become a pariah. Instead, he’s gotten away with murder.

The best chance to end hostilities in the war-torn nation has fizzled out, leaving proponents of peace to wonder what went wrong.

Businessman Gilbert Bigio is facing penalties for his alleged involvement with the violence that’s engulfed the country during Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s corrupt reign.

Any discussion of the region’s future shouldn’t give short shrift to the possibility of new nations emerging from under Putin’s yoke.

Sanctions were conceived as an alternative to war. But they may have made the world more violent.