In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+...

Recent events in Niger have called attention to the role of Congress in overseeing military deployments outside areas of active hostilities. As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to consider the value of updating or even replacing the 2001 Authorization for the...

Criticism of President Donald Trump reached a new amplitude recently over a call he made to the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier. Reportedly, the president told Myeshia Johnson that her husband, Sergeant La David Johnson, “knew what he was signing up for.” Set aside Gold...

Sunday’s gubernatorial elections reconfirmed that Venezuela’s democracy cannot be restored by constitutional means. The current regime is led by a corrupt cabal unwilling to give up its concentrated power, after causing an unprecedented humanitarian, economic, and...

On September 8, President Trump signed into law H.R. 601, the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017.” The bill addresses...

Truth commissions have become common practice in countries that have experienced periods of violence and democratic transitions. They seek to deal with impunity, to break the cycles of violence and human rights violations, and to establish, objectively and impartially, what...

As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds its hearing today on U.S. security assistance to foreign partners—only the committee’s second hearing on the topic...

In an increasingly competitive security environment, working together with allies and partners to achieve common security goals has become the preferred approach for the United States.

Despite a potential clash between Mexico and the United States on a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and tougher immigration enforcement, U.S. and Mexican officials continue to cooperate well on a wide range of issues. At the working level, substantial efforts...

While North Korean threats involving missiles and nuclear armament ring louder and clearer than ever before, a major crisis in our neighborhood cannot be overlooked. Venezuela’s collapse is already producing security, financial, and economic risks for the United States and...

On Tuesday (August 1), the Department of Defense (DoD) submitted a report to Congress outlining its plans for realigning the organizational structure of the defense...

Major overhauls may indeed be necessary to optimize outcomes in our defense acquisition system. However, if we’re not using all of the authorities at our disposal now, what evidence do we have that such reorganizations will result in anything more than a reconstitution of...