Instead of withdrawing from upholding international order, the Donald Trump administration should embrace a strategy of ...

The essence of the strategy is focusing on core national interests of the United States, without the distraction of asking ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Rebecca Lissner is a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She most recently served as ...

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 ...

Trump's 'America First' strategy matches public demand for stronger military against China, yet Americans favor more NATO support than suggested.

Like the classic Clint Eastwood western, the Trump Administration should have titled its National Security Strategy: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The good is the NSS’s recognition of the ...

The U.S. intelligence community should monitor global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests, ...

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is, in many ways, unlike any in U.S. history. Most strategy documents of this kind articulate the threats that the United States’ adversaries ...

For decades, America’s chief adversaries, Russia and China, have been striving to upend the U.S.-led post-World War II international order. For just as long, the U.S. government has published national ...