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Algene T. Sajery, founder and chief executive officer of Catalyst Global Strategies, and Christopher M. Tuttle, managing director at the Council, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what challe…

By defining today’s geopolitics as a clash between democracy and autocracy, the Biden administration risks both empowering America’s adversaries and undercutting its allies.

The authors note that “despite the decades-long failure to implement essential reforms—and even in the face of sustained hostility from the [Donald J. Trump] administration—diplomacy remains the best tool the United States has to advance its foreign policy interests.” “But many of the challenges facing the DOS have existed for decades,” they explain. “Deficits in diversity, institutional culture, and professionalization are endemic to the State Department as an institution, and a ...

Panelists discuss the rise of domestic terrorism in the United States, and the threat of white supremacist organizations, QAnon, disinformation and fake news, and conspiracy groups following the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The Transition 2021 series examines the major issues confronting the administration in the foreign policy arena.

The Biden administration should still host its proposed Summit for Democracy provided it approaches it in the spirit of humility rather than hubris.

Following Joe Biden’s election as the forty-sixth president of the United States, many people in Taiwan feared that U.S.-Taiwan relations would suffe…

Biden should reinvigorate American leadership within the United Nations and invest more energy and resources into multilateral diplomacy. 

Some of these will be harder to rejoin than others, particularly those that require congressional approval. Biden could also face hurdles diplomatically. “The major question is how much damage has been done to the credibility of U.S. leadership, especially in that the United States has shown that its policy can turn on a dime when administrations change,” CFR’s Stewart M. Patrick says.  What has Biden pledged to rejoin? Paris Agreement On his first day in office, Biden signed a letter t...

The Biden administration should still host its proposed Summit for Democracy provided it approaches it in the spirit of humility rather than hubris.

Thomas J. Bollyky, director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at CFR, and Jennifer Nuzzo, CFR senior fellow for global health, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the incoming Biden administration’s likely approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.