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President Donald Trump at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 2019. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/48791288231/>The White House (CC)</a>.

OCT 25, 2019 Article

The Search for a New Narrative: Recasting American Involvement in the International System

This project on U.S. Global Engagement was launched in 2018. An initial report, released in December 2018, diagnosed the causes and symptoms of the narrative collapse ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & Vice President Mike Pence in Turkey, October 17, 2019. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/48919135551/">The White House/D. Myles Cullen/Public Domain</a>

OCT 18, 2019 Article

A Russian Take on the Kurds and U.S. Foreign Policy

A Russian defense news site declared the United States an "unreliable ally" after the withdrawal of American troops from Northern Syria. Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev ...

OCT 17, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

A Russian Take on the Kurds and U.S. Foreign Policy

The Russian defense news site Voennoye Obozrenie has a very interesting and caustic take on the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria.

OCT 1, 2019 Journal

Fall 2019 (33.3)

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Fall 2019 issue of the journal! This issue features a roundtable on “Economic Sanctions and ...

Ethiopia, during a drought in 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/unicefethiopia/24714637829">UNICEF Ethiopia</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

SEP 20, 2019 Article

A Case for Giving Climate Migrants Protected Legal Status

With climate change already affecting vast regions of the planet, Bard College's Brian Mateo makes the case for expanding legal protections for refugees to include ...

U.S. servicemembers load humanitarian relief supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis. Yokota Air Base, Japan, 2008. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:080512-F-1590C-553_Loading_relief_supplies_at_U-Tapao.jpg>U.S. Air Force (CC)</a>.

SEP 20, 2019 Article

Need for a New Consensus

Foreign policy experts are having difficulty linking the negative implications of a shift towards trasactionalism for U.S. foreign aid to voters. This begs the ...

SEP 20, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Need for a New Consensus

Josh Rogin follows up on the move to institutionalize transactionalism as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign aid.

Khurais Oil Processing Facility in Saudi Arabia, February 2017. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khurais_Oil_Processing_Facility,_Saudi_Arabia_by_Planet_Labs.jpg>Planet Labs, Inc. (CC)</a>.

SEP 18, 2019 Article

Candidates, Calculus, and the Iran Crisis

In choosing whether and how to respond to the attack on Saudi Arabian oil refineries, what is the calculus for determining action? Should the United ...

SEP 18, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Candidates, Calculus and the Iran Crisis

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking with the members of the Greater Des Moines Committee on Foreign Relations this past Tuesday around ...

Protest against U.S. military attacks in Syria, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2017. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/33878190156/in/album-72157682265455706/>Fibonacci Blue (CC)</a>.

SEP 17, 2019 Article

The Narrative IS Changing . . .

The narrative about America's role in the world is changing--and more evidence is accumulating that suggests that no matter how the 2020 presidential and congressional elections ...