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The June 2025 U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program ended the era of diplomatic counterproliferation, replacing it with recurring military action that may delay—but not eliminate—Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Iranian regime could emerge more determined to pursue concealed…

The old international order is dying as power shifts from West to East and the digital age dismantles the industrial-era social contract that anchored U.S. democracy. American grand strategy must therefore do two things at once: shape a pluralistic, multipolar order abroad and re…

Americans are tired of the burdens of global leadership, but downsizing the postwar order does not change the laundry list of problems the United States still has to manage day in and day out. The order Washington built produced unprecedented great-power peace and shared prosperi…

Trump has so thoroughly upended long-established principles of U.S. foreign policy that his successor will have no choice but to conduct a fundamental, zero-based review of U.S. goals and the means to achieve them. Experts should start that work now, distinguishing the "need to d…

History shows that U.S. strategy oscillates between activism and retrenchment, and the decade ahead will likely feature efforts to make foreign policy less ideological, less global, less bloody, and less unilateral. But every period of downsizing eventually triggers a backlash wh…

AI capabilities are doubling every four months, and the resulting disruptions to jobs, civil liberties, and national security will make AI the central issue of the 2028 election. Effective policy must regulate domestic safety, share the economic gains broadly, and maximize the U.…

The Middle East's center of gravity has shifted to the Gulf, and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran may well accelerate that trend. As Americans debate whether the United States' core regional interests are still worth defending, Washington is likely to reduce its posture in the M…

Economic warfare has gone global, and the post-1990s economic order, built for an age of efficiency rather than rivalry, is fragmenting. Three futures are possible: managed globalization, competing blocs, or pure transactionalism.

Trump turned tariffs from a response to the China shock into a durable, more sweeping tool of U.S. economic statecraft. Even as courts challenge his methods, future presidents are unlikely to surrender the executive’s expanded trade powers. The result will be a more volatile, bil…

China now has greater scale than the United States across nearly every dimension of great-power competition, leaving Washington unable to balance Beijing on its own. The only viable path is to build "allied scale" by transforming bilateral alliances into a platform for pooled eco…

Economic power is no longer about writing rules in global institutions; it is about weaponizing interdependence. China's response to Trump's tariffs, wielding its dominance of critical mineral supply chains, has set a precedent more important than the tariffs themselves. The Unit…

Partisanship and the collapse of the foreign policy establishment are making U.S. national security policy less durable, with presidents acting alone and consensus increasingly out of reach. The likely result is short-lived policies, weak alliances, and a strategic disadvantage a…

America’s rupture with allies, institutions, and global economic norms has left the next U.S. president an international economic system that bears little resemblance to the one that preceded it. The task at hand is not restoration but reinvention.

The Iran war has showcased U.S. precision firepower but exposed glaring vulnerabilities, from rapidly depleted munitions stockpiles to inadequate defenses against cheap drones. Washington should buy fewer expensive manned platforms and far more low-cost drones and counter-drone s…

Strained alliances, depleted munitions, and an unsustainable defense budget will force U.S. military planners into hard trade-offs even as China and Russia loom larger. To deter both countries, the Pentagon should compete asymmetrically with flexible, innovative capabilities, and…

Europe is on track to defend itself against Russia but unlikely to project meaningful power beyond its borders, leaving the continent an inward-looking island of stability. For the United States, that is a mixed blessing: a stronger Europe at home frees up U.S. capabilities elsew…

The Western Hemisphere has bifurcated into a North America aligned with Washington and a South America tilting toward Beijing. A more immediate danger comes from criminal-political-business networks across Latin America. Washington should compete more effectively with China and c…

Over the next decade, African states will face mounting threats to their legitimacy and sovereignty, with some becoming client states of outside patrons and others gaining leverage from competition over critical minerals, demographics, and geography. To remain relevant on a conti…

Climate change poses a major geopolitical and economic threat, reshaping coastlines, opening the Arctic, driving migration, straining water supplies, and magnifying extreme heat. U.S. policymakers systematically underestimate these cascading risks and are failing to invest in ada…

Alliances remain Washington's single greatest strategic advantage over China and Russia, but the old transatlantic bargain of U.S. protection for European loyalty is no longer politically sustainable. A more autonomous Europe within a rebalanced alliance is the better future for …

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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to announce a new grant to launch the Project on Rebuilding the Case for Global Health and Development in Foreign Policy. It will spur fresh thinking and mobilize support for global health and development finance. “Now more than e…

The diffusion of power across the international system, the return of great power competition, and the rapid advance of revolutionary technologies—from artificial intelligence to autonomous weapons—have forced a reassessment of how the United States deters adversaries, sustains a…

A long-awaited meeting produced modest stability but no grand deals—for Southeast Asia and South Asia, it could have been worse, but the region has reacted with significant worry about the summit’s outcomes.

The Beijing summit did not resolve U.S.-China competition. Instead, it gave the rest of the world reason to worry about a new uncertainty: whether U.S.-China “strategic stability” will restrain rivalry, conceal it, or turn it into a bilateral bargain over their heads.