Uri Friedman
He was previously the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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Alex Wong / Getty / A l l ... America’s Alliance System Will Face One of Its Biggest Tests Yet
The outcome of a U.S.–South Korea defense negotiation could transform America’s global footprint.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Bet on Kim Might Not Pay Off
All that’s preventing the collapse of talks is that North Korea’s missiles haven’t flown far enough yet.
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Fernando Llano / AP How an Elaborate Plan to Topple Venezuela’s President Went Wrong
The United States thought all the pieces were in place for Maduro to leave. Then everything came crashing down.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Japan and Russia Muscle Their Way Into the Trump-Kim Dialogue
Putin is meeting with Kim, and Abe is meeting with Trump. But nobody’s quite sure who’s influencing whom.
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Desmond Boylan / AP Trump’s Venezuela Policy: Slow Suffocation
The administration is pressuring other countries to tighten the noose on Nicolás Maduro. But his backers have the upper hand.
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Chung Sung-Jun / Getty The Plan to Resurrect the North Korea Nuclear Talks
Trump wants a “big deal” with North Korea. South Korea would like him to settle for something a little smaller.
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Ariana Cubillos / AP The U.S. Is Running Low on Options to Force Maduro Out
The Trump administration has already deployed visa restrictions, sanctions, and even an embargo on Venezuelan oil. What else is left?
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Leah Millis / Reuters The U.S. and North Korea Are Back to Talking Tough
Pyongyang’s latest threats don’t necessarily mean diplomacy is dead. But they are a sign of just how deadlocked nuclear talks have become.
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Vincent Yu / AP How the White House Is Spinning the North Korea Summit Collapse
The administration no longer thinks Trump alone can reach a deal with Kim Jong Un.
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Kevin Lim / The Straits Times / Reuters Is Trump Giving Up on a Nuclear-Free North Korea?
The Vietnam summit showed just how high the price of denuclearization will be.
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Pool After Raising the Stakes for North Korea Summit, Trump Walks Away
It seemed history was about to be made. Then the second meeting between the U.S. and North Korean leaders concluded abruptly.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The Nuclear Game Theory of the India-Pakistan Crisis
As President Donald Trump meets with North Korea’s dictator, military escalation in South Asia offers lessons.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Thinks He’s the Only One Who Can Fix North Korea
In Vietnam, the U.S. and North Korean leaders will once again act as lead negotiators in nuclear talks. “No one really knows what it will mean to ski downhill from the top of Mt. Everest,” wrote one expert.
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Minh Hoang / AP The United States Is Still Trying to Sell North Korea on Denuclearization
Days before Donald Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong Un, an administration official admits that Kim may not be prepared to part with his nuclear weapons.
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Reuters Germany Preps a Plan B for Trump’s Foreign-Policy ‘Zigzag’
One of Washington’s closest allies in a fractured Europe struggles to adapt to the Trump administration’s unpredictable policy moves.
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Jung Yeon-Je / AFP / Getty South Korea Becomes a Testing Ground for Trump’s Grievances With Allies
The motto for the U.S.–South Korea alliance isn’t “We go together, if I get enough money as reimbursement,” one analyst observed.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Trump’s Affinity for Strongmen Has a Big Exception
Trump campaigned against overseas interventions, and he has a reputation for being friendly with some authoritarian rulers. Now he wants Venezuela’s Maduro gone.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump Can’t Be Both a Deal Maker and a Deal Breaker
President Trump wants to cut an ambitious nuclear deal with North Korea. But he just broke away from one of the most important nuclear agreements in the past 50 years.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House’s Move on Venezuela Is the Least Trumpian Thing It’s Done
The Trump administration’s concerted diplomatic effort did not originate on Twitter.
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Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters Make America Negotiate Again
The first U.S.-North Korea summit produced lukewarm results. Trump may be putting more on the table for the second one.
