Foreign Policy

Walking, for a moment, in the shoemaker's shoes.

As Biden delivers his valedictory address at the World Economic Forum, we wonder what might have been.

The 44th president of the United States promised to bring change but mostly drove the country deeper into a ditch.

Imagine having the job of your dreams. You look forward to work each morning and are filled with a tremendous sense of purpose. Then imagine that you get a new CEO who starts publicly trashing your organization to the entire world.

The Obama administration’s conduct of foreign policy related to global conflict may have frustrated many, but it was both coherent and internally consistent.

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.