Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office

PODCAST: America First, Unbound?

President Donald Trump’s latest moves on the Ukraine War and tariffs signal the full emergence of his “America First” agenda, unencumbered by the moderating voices of his first administration. America...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Purely Transactional

President Trump will incorporate “The Art of the Deal” in most, if not every, foreign policy interaction. Where will this mentality take Ukraine, Russia, and Europe as the anticipated peace...

Ukrainian soldiers marching in formation.

Ukrainian Soldiers Reflect On Biden’s Legacy

This Article contains exclusive interviews with several Ukrainian soldiers, highlighting the approaches of both the Trump and Biden presidencies. Europe was caught off guard when the Trump administration announced it...

America’s Vanishing Tech Edge: Reclaiming Leadership from China

Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

PODCAST: Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint (w/ Daniel McCarthy)

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to build his second administration, will he follow the Reaganite path of smaller government and lower taxes, or will he instead break from traditional Republican...

Is Donald Trump’s NATO Comment Really a Political Crisis?

Former President Donald Trump is facing criticism for another hot take on NATO. You may remember, that during Trump’s 2016 campaign, he made headlines for saying that NATO was “obsolete,”...

Joe Biden Can’t Show Weakness on Guyana

Joe Biden Needs to Ensure Guyana Isn’t Weakened by Venezuela. Thanks in large part to American weakness, wars are spreading across the world. Europe and the Middle East are on fire, Asia...

The Office That Henry Kissinger Built

Every American has Dr. Henry Kissinger to thank for helping to shape a more peaceful world. Every National Security Adviser who served after Kissinger has him to thank for skillfully...

Henry Kissinger Was a Legend for a Reason

Henry Kissinger, who died yesterday, was the last representative of the Eastern Establishment that guided foreign policy after World War II, when America quickly rose to become the predominant world...

Turkey Halts Discussions With Greece Over Airspace ‘Provocations’

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that his country would halt discussions with Greece over the status of Greco-Turkish disputes in the Mediterranean Sea after what he characterized...

Is Joe Biden President Woodrow Wilson Come Again?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Biden’s emergent progressive messianism drastically diverges from the Obama administration’s frequent reluctance to reshape the world and general humility about the limits of American power....

China’s Foreign Ministry: Biden Administration is ‘Playing With Fire’

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The People’s Liberation Army Navy has deployed its aircraft carrier Liaoning near Taiwan’s coastal waters while Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has reported multiple incursions by China’s Air Force, the latest...