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Looking Ahead: RCEP, Regional Value Chains and Indo-Pacific Recovery
Jeffrey Wilson, Perth USAsia Centre, Asia Society | RCEP will be the world’s second-most important trade agreement on arrival, ranking...
What a Biden Win Would Mean for the Future of Multilateralism
Stewart M. Patrick, WPR| Should Joe Biden win the American presidency on Nov. 3, the world will experience whiplash, as the U.S. performs...
Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Passes Important Threshold
Rick Gladstone, NY Times | Fifty countries have now ratified the treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, so it will become international law....
MENA: Trade and Regional Integration are Critical to Economic Recovery in the Post-Covid Era
Modern Diplomacy | Trade and integration — within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and with the rest of the world — will be...
Team Biden Should Start With an Asia Pivot 2.0
Foreign Policy | The recent meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in Tokyo revealed many of the dilemmas the United States faces...
Trump, Biden and the World
Washington Post | A presidential election in the United States is an international event. For decades, the question of who occupies the...
The Transformation of Diplomacy: How to Save the State Department?
William J. Burns and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Foreign Affairs | After four years of attacks by the Trump administration, U.S. diplomacy...
UAE-Bahrain deals with Israel offer chance at a ‘warm peace,’ economic growth and a moderate Mideast
Frederick Kempe, CNBC | It’s been a safe bet over the last four decades to “short” the region, as other parts of the world have moved...
The UN at Seventy-Five: How to Make it Relevant Again?
CFR.org Editors Members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it...
UN experts condemn Hong Kong security law in letter to China
Al-Jazeera China has faced intense criticism over the security legislation, which was imposed at the end of June following a year of...
Environmental Diplomacy: China’s Attitude and Effort Towards Climate Change
Sweta Chalise, Modern Diplomacy With the rapid process of industrialization and modernization, there has been a notable increase in...
The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
Anthony Vinci, Foreign Affairs In the future, machines will spy on machines in order to know what other machines are doing or are...
The 2020 Candidates on Foreign Policy
CFR | The CFR Guide to the presidential candidates and their positions on global issues such as Diplomacy & Foreign Aid, Cybersecurity,...
Artificial Intelligence and Its Partners
Oleg Shakirov, Modern Diplomacy The creation of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) reflects the growing interest of...
The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
Jonathan Masters, CFR | Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and...
How to Make Trade Work for Workers: Charting a Path Between Protectionism and Globalism
Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs Coronavirus has challenged many long-held assumptions. In the coming months and years, the United...
Europe still lacks a foreign policy
The Economist A coherent foreign policy in current circumstances would make sense. Instead, the EU has a contradictory one. Read the full...
Competing with China? The United States has disarmed itself
Mira Rapp-Hooper, CNN Trump administration long ago sabotaged its best chances of competing with or standing up to Beijing, by alienating...
US vs EU: A new transatlantic trade war looming?
Andrei Kodomstev, Modern Diplomacy Many observers warn that worsening transatlantic trade relations could lead to a new trade war. The...
UN chief calls for “a new model for global governance”
Democracy Without Borders In what The Guardian newspaper called “his most stinging speeches to date”, UN Secretary-General António...
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