These innovations are making it easier and cheaper to exchange currencies directly for one another rather than using the dollar as an intermediary currency. But for all the new opportunities these ...

Kennedy hoped that poverty in Latin America would visibly recede within a couple of years of USAID’s creation, as he was understandably worried that Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s Marxist ...

Foreign governments have tried to influence the United States since its founding. President George Washington warned in his Farewell Address that “foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of ...

Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 ...

THOMAS GRAHAM is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Co-Founder of Yale University’s Russian, East European, and Eu ...

MIRA RAPP-HOOPER is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and ...

PHILIP H. GORDON is Sydney Stein, Jr. Scholar in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at Brookings Institution. Previously, he served ...

The world’s fertility crisis is more severe than is commonly understood. Last year, humanity’s total fertility level dropped below what demographers call the replacement rate—that is, the average ...

Can the United States and China simultaneously cooperate and compete on AI? That is the question driving debates in Washington about the wisdom of pursuing talks on the subject with Beijing. The Biden ...

Just a few years ago, U.S. President Joe Biden caused a stir when he confirmed publicly that his administration would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by China—a divergence from the ...

According to reports by the United Nations and the Global Terrorism Index, Africa is the overwhelming center of terrorist activity today. The African continent accounts for more than 50 percent of all ...

That will require a true foreign policy revolution that grapples not just with the outrages and failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policy but also with the ways in which past Democratic or ...