Uri Friedman
He was previously the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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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.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP What to Expect From Trump-Kim Take Two
If the first summit accomplished little, the second could be the same—but there are many wild cards.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / RTImages / ... Trump Flirts With Leaving NATO, and ‘Zero’ Republicans in Congress Are Impressed
For someone who actively avoids criticizing the president, Senator Jim Risch has a lot to say about how he will deal with Trump.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Stars in a North Korean Reality Show
When the president became the first American leader to meet his counterpart in Pyongyang, he created a spectacle unlike anything America has seen.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AP In the Middle East, Is Trump the Anti-Obama or Obama 2.0?
In Cairo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo drew a stark contrast between the two presidents. But they’re not as different as they seem.
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Leah Millis / Reuters America, Meet Your (Acting) Secretary of Defense
With no military experience and just a year and a half in government, the former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan has yet to develop a foreign-policy vision of his own.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Trump’s Luck, Cold Wars, and Trouble in the Americas: The World in 2019
As foreign-policy experts assess what the year ahead holds, one issue comes to the fore: whether President Trump’s good fortune will continue.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Chooses a Loyal Foot Soldier for the UN
Heather Nauert, currently the State Department’s chief spokesperson, is not known for challenging her superiors.
