Foreign Policy

USAID is in the dark on Trump's plans, but Republicans in Congress could be the main defenders of foreign assistance.

Ignore the corruption or human rights abuse allegations. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wants you to know he’s a really great guy, and he’s got a reality show to prove it.

Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan are the targets of a recount effort amid allegations of Russian hacking.

International condemnation, not proper investigation, prompted Dubai to drop the charges, experts say.

The likely death of the hard-fought TPP pact has left even Washington's closest allies wondering about its credibility.

Muhammadu Buhari promised to embrace democracy as president, but turned out to be the same autocrat who failed the country 30 years ago.

From restoring torture to expanding surveillance, the president-elect’s picks for national security advisor, CIA director, and attorney general favor a no-holds-barred approach to Islamist extremists at home and abroad.

Obama's half-brother wants the answers.

The former House speaker won’t serve in the cabinet — and says the president elect shouldn’t tap other Washington insiders, either. (Too late.)

The specter of hyperinflation is driving demonstrations against Mugabe, and security forces are responding with brutality.

Americans are awash in a sea of disinformation. We've got to fight back.

Now that the king is gone, can Thailand’s opposition come together to challenge the ruling military junta?

It's becoming increasingly difficult to move away from the rising far-right.

Washington has always managed to keep Tokyo and Seoul from pursuing nuclear ambitions, but a blustering U.S. president could change that in months.

To win his meeting with Donald Trump, Shinzo Abe needed to convince the president-elect that they're on the same team.

The Russian president has gotten a lot of mileage out of his “craziest man on the world stage” shtick. In a Trump White House, he may have met his match.

Will President-elect Trump shatter America’s most important bilateral relationship?

A Hong Kong court could soon decide on the future legal relationship between the city and the mainland.

The GOP has become the party of populism. Now the Democrats have to build a new party of multicultural cosmopolitanism.

Q&A with Lindsey Ford, director of Asian security at the Asia Society Policy Institute.