Foreign Policy

America's institutions weren't designed to resist a modern strongman. That leaves civil society.

By Paul McLeary and FP Staff BRUSSELS — In two days of high level meetings last week, top Pentagon and White House officials met with President-elect Donald Trump and his staff to walk through the biggest national security issues of the day. While traveling in Brussels on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff ...

The Hawaii lawmaker, who has bucked both parties on the issue of Syria, met with government officials on a "fact-finding" mission.

The Global Times' outrageous statements make for great headlines. That's the problem.

And Gen. James Cartwright gets a pardon.

The abrupt end to the decades-old ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy for Cubans has quiet support from Trump.

Obama’s historic normalization with Havana is under threat from Trump’s hardline cabal of Castro-haters.

Rome is trying to shape the future of its onetime colony, but may get elbowed aside by local strongmen and their foreign partners.

Trump has tapped the former New York mayor to lead a computer security advisory council.

The Exxon boss has shown before he can take Beijing to the limit — but as Secretary of State the stakes will be far higher.

Géronimo Guitérrez will represent a government that Trump believes has taken advantage of the United States.

That would bump Randy Forbes, a former Virginia lawmaker credited with helping form Trump’s navy plans.

Why left-leaning Germans are secretly -- and not so secretly -- planning to pull for Mutti.

While it’s only two cases so far, it’s a stark reminder of West Africa’s vulnerability to epidemics.

And aid groups accuse EU of inaction.

Perhaps the greatest risk is that bitter residue from this scuffle over a single (albeit significant) analytic assessment will deflect attention from the more serious intelligence policy questions that require the government’s attention.

The president-elect conceded Moscow hacked the U.S. election, but accused intelligence agencies of ‘Nazi’ tactics.

President Tsai Ing-Wen traveled to Central America to loosen China's grip on Taiwan. But will it work?

The oilman struggled to lend coherence to Trump’s foreign policy, but did reveal their differences on Russia, climate change, nukes and more.

It's the truth ... and we need the patience and rigor to get to it.