On both sides of the Red Sea, interconnected conflicts metastasize while Washington sends mixed signals.

Does the recent visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Russia signal rising U.S.-Russia tensions? Many people in Washington have been asking that question after John Ratcliffe ...

Edward Fishman’s career has taken him from government to think tanks to Silicon Valley. He sat down with CFR to discuss the ...

The leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries did not resolve any of the major issues facing the U.S.-China ...

Long-standing educational programs such as Fulbright, Boren, and the Critical Language Scholarship are all suspended. A ...

The honors for Xi exceed what Trump got in Beijing, but the asymmetry goes beyond the pageantry. A quick brief on ten issues ...

Since the Future of American Strategy Initiative launched in late May, we’ve shared nearly thirty essays about where U.S.

In January, China condemned the United States’ capture and arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Brazil reacted to ...

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Six voting groups helped deliver Trump’s 2024 win. A new CFR report examines these voters’ views of foreign policy and ...

The United States and Canada may settle their current trade dispute, but the decades-long movement to integrate the two ...

The second of four meetings in 2026 between the leaders of the United States and China is unlikely to produce any major ...