AEI’s foreign and defense policy scholars are dedicated to the principle that American global leadership is vital to a peaceful, prosperous, and free world. Our research focuses on both today’s ...

President Donald Trump built his political appeal over the past decade partly by vowing to extricate America from military quagmires overseas, promising to avoid “nation building” and wars designed to ...

The “America first” foreign policy of U.S. President Donald Trump has unsettled the world America made. Allies are questioning the United States’ reliability as a strategic partner and are concerned ...

The first year of President Donald Trump’s second term brought many significant changes to U.S. foreign policy, as the administration worked to reshape policy to fit its priorities and to respond to ...

Editor's note: This episode originally aired on December 16, 2025. As we approach 2026, the NPR Politics Podcast is taking a look back at the year that was in different political areas. Today, we ...

U.S. President Donald Trump walks out the door of the White House, in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025 (AP photo by Evan Vucci). Last Thursday, in the dead of night in Washington, President Donald Trump’s ...

RONALD REAGAN’S foreign policy of “peace through strength” has long been embraced by America’s Republican Party. But who is the keeper of the Gipper’s flame? The split between Donald Trump’s America ...

Your editorial on the White House’s national security strategy, “A Trump Doctrine of Contradictions” (Dec. 9), fails to note the document’s most significant accomplishment: prioritization. U.S.

Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately ...

YOU MIGHT think that in Trumpworld a new National Security Strategy (NSS) would not count for all that much. John Bolton, a national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first term, frequently laments ...

Mogherini, others, accused of procurement fraud, corruption by EPPO Investigation involves EU-funded training for junior diplomats Kallas seeks to reassure staff, emphasises presumption of innocence ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BRUSSELS — The European Union’s former foreign policy chief faces corruption accusations alongside two other ...