Michael McFaul notes that the Trump administration’s national-security strategy doesn’t sufficiently detail the threat posed by our autocratic adversaries (Letters, Dec. 13). That’s true—but it does ...

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Hope is not a strategy. For most of this year, European leaders have hoped that the Trump Administration has not actually meant its President’s oscillating support for the North Atlantic Treaty ...

Large cardboard cut-outs of U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are seen along the motorcade route in Ahmedabad, India, Feb. 24, 2020. Credit: Official White House ...

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting at the Gimhae International Airport terminal in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. Credit: Official White ...

When the Trump administration unveiled its new national security strategy (NSS) last week, many experts noticed one major shift: how it talks – or more importantly, doesn’t talk – about China. Gone ...

WASHINGTON’S newly articulated National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025 marks a decisive shift in how the United States intends to manage power, deter rivals and mobilize alliances across the ...

In many ways, the NSS concretizes what Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined in an article for the Wall Street Journal regarding an “Americas First Foreign Policy.” As a region, the Western ...

On Dec. 4, the White House released its National Security Strategy (NSS), a document generally released once per presidential term that aims to serve as a formal explanation of the administration’s ...

The White House released US President Donald Trump's National Security Strategy (NSS) report for his second term Thursday evening local time, described by US media Politico as "a rare formal ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. On December 4, the Donald Trump administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS) that criticized U.S. allies ...

This National Security Strategy (NSS) marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy. The administration is attempting to define a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that ...