A discussion about the role of the United States in shaping up the new world order, the trade war, and U.S. strategy on its Afghanistan exit.
President Trump says he does not want a major war in the Middle East, but hardliners in the United State and Iran are on a collision course toward conflict.
Europe is grappling with how to uphold the Iranian nuclear deal without the United States.
With tensions rising between the U.S. and Iran, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the diplomatic path forward for the countries.
It is hard to understand the smoldering aggressiveness that Vladimir Putin embodies unless one understands the curious combination of hope and humiliation that followed the end of communism and the deprivation that Russians felt in the 1990s.
A conversation about American diplomacy in the age of Trump.
American diplomacy has been adrift through much of the post-Cold War period. President Trump has accelerated that drift and made it infinitely worse.
Most Americans don’t need to be persuaded of the importance of disciplined U.S. leadership in the world. But what they are not so convinced of is the disciplined part.

As China grows in power, how does the country seek to reshape the international system to serve its strategic aims?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Chol, in Washington in what was reportedly a meeting to firm up about a second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.