A defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey shows how far U.S. influence in the Middle East has eroded—and how regional powers are now shaping their own security order. Turkish President ...

Stephanie Psaki is a leading expert on health security and the intersection of global health, U.S. foreign policy, and national security. She has two decades of experience spanning the White House, ...

Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson trace ...

Mysterious medical appointments. Elected officials’ long absences from public duties, explained in the vaguest of terms or not at all. These increasingly common features of political life in the ...

Sadanand Dhume has both sprinted as a foreign correspondent and endured the marathon of writing two books. The new senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia sat down with CFR to share insights ...

Japan intervention to prop up the yen has as much to do with protecting U.S. Treasury markets as with helping an ally manage ...

An unprecedented surge of migrants into Spanish territory in North Africa marked the first test of the European Union’s new ...

The United States carried out the Potsdam Declaration’s threat of “prompt and utter destruction” on August 6 when a B-29 ...

A weak renminbi directly led to China’s latest export boom, and a stronger renminbi is the only realistic cure.

The United States and Japan carried out their first coordinated currency intervention in more than a decade: buying yen to arrest its slide to a forty-year low. CFR’s Brad W. Setser explains what is ...

At the July meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers, most of whom were already furious at ...

America, Iran and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty. For decades, politicians and generals have obsessed with how to coerce ...