Foreign Policy

Strategic economic reserves can allow Washington to bolster smaller countries like Australia.

The European Union’s foreign minister explains his vision for a new U.S.-Europe partnership for the next four years.

If the bill passes, Argentina would become just the third country in Latin America to provide unmitigated access to abortion.

But the vote laid down a marker for the incoming Biden administration on Democrats’ opposition to Middle Eastern arms sales and U.S. involvement in the conflict in Yemen.

Some lawmakers and many national security experts are wary of another general atop the Pentagon, but Lloyd Austin has the president-elect’s ear—and backing.

Once an asset, the clan has become an electoral liability.

The case of an alleged Chinese spy who worked her way into U.S. municipal politics raises tricky questions about how cautious politicians should be.

The government is walking on a tightrope as the coronavirus crisis grinds on.

Western Sahara’s fate lies in the hands of the U.N. Security Council.

“America first” doesn’t work against a global opponent.

Although unlikely to survive a presidential veto, the vote signals growing activism within Congress on foreign weapons sales.

Eastern Europeans are returning home in droves. Here’s what that means for Eastern Europe’s economies—and the European Union.

Missiles remotely fired with the assistance of a U.S. base on German soil killed my family in Yemen, but neither German nor U.S. courts are willing to hold anyone accountable.

Biden’s landing teams are steering clear of an administration that has often served as a COVID-19 superspreader event.

The EU vows to seize the opportunity posed by the new U.S. administration—but muddled strategy still stands in the way.

The U.S.-China conflict may be the defining 21st-century challenge, but the recommendations stand out by what they fail to address.

Biden’s choice of a Black secretary of defense is historic, but Lloyd Austin's defense industry ties and recent service put his nomination in question.

Lloyd Austin would be the first Black person to serve in the job.

Human rights groups have already voiced serious concerns about the plan to move thousands of refugees to an uninhabited island.

There’s a right man for the job of a careful review.