U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has 70 days until he takes office, but his foreign-policy decision-making has already begun. 1. The United Nations. On Monday, Trump nominated New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to be the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik is a longtime critic of the international body. She has accused the U.N. […]
Democrats are in a state of shock. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisive defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Electoral College and the popular vote has been disillusioning. The fact that Trump has grown his coalition feels like a rebuke of what Democrats have stood for since the 1960s. In the months ahead, […]
With Donald Trump’s election victory this week, it’s clear that the president-elect will not be nearly as supportive of Ukraine’s fight against Russia as the current administration—and may well abandon Ukraine entirely. Such a reality is already resounding in Ukraine, with plenty of hand-wringing in Kyiv about how Trump will pull the United States back […]
When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump unexpectedly won his first term in 2016, it stunned European officials and sent them scrambling to puzzle out the implications for transatlantic ties. Not this time. When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump unexpectedly won his first term in 2016, it stunned European officials and sent them scrambling to puzzle out the […]
As in Israel, there is definitely a pro-Trump vibe from elites and officials in the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East. It is no secret that the Israelis and Arab Gulf leaders have a confluence of interests when it comes to Iran. They also tend to see former U.S. President Donald Trump—despite his actual […]
Comparing Trump’s and Harris’s foreign-policy plans in Africa. Source link