Foreign Policy In Focus

On April 27, 2026, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz launched the Trade Over Aid Initiative from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The initiative was built on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s argument that gov...

When ministers from seven key OPEC plus countries concluded their virtual deliberations on August 2, 2026, and announced a scheduled production ad...

Remember that photo from Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as a president back in 2017?

The new president was in Riyadh. Instead of going to Europe or Japan or Canada, Trump was making his first presidential trip to Saudi Arabia. And there he was, at the opening of a new World Center for Countering Extremist Thought, flashing his trademark smirk as he put his hands on...

On August 7, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a defense pact that echoed Article 5 of NATO: an attack on one will be attack on all. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, for its vernacular, has sen...

In late July, more than 30 water and wastewater systems in Minnesota were hit in a coordinated cyberattack, part of a broader campaign affecting utilities in at least seven states. Federal investigators ha...