In leaving open the option of a single-state solution, Donald Trump recently broke with two decades of international diplomacy.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
What would single and two-state solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian question look like?
Michael Flynn’s departure has left the White House under a cloud.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
Losing a national security adviser is one thing – weeks and months of slow-drip crises is quite another.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame attending a 2016 climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
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A Trump presidency brings into question America’s traditional approach to Africa, especially Rwanda. But a true shift in US foreign policy in Africa is not a priority for the Trump administration.
EPA/Boris Pejovic
Great powers are often deadly rivals, but their leaders can still learn to communicate properly.
A protestor burns a figure representing Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
Since World War II, the US and Mexico have successfully worked together on issues like trade and migration. If Trump refuses to treat Mexico as a partner, how bitter will the breakup be?
It’s not as bad as it looks.
EPA/Sergei Ilnitsky
Great powers have always meddled in each other’s business and struggled to reconcile their interests. Why are we convinced Russia is different?
One unpopular president goes up in the world at the expense of another.
EPA/Jorge Nunez
It takes a lot to make a president with a 12% approval rating a hero. Trump may yet manage it.
Australia must think differently about its relationship with the US under Donald Trump.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
Australian and American leaders over the years have, from time to time, disagreed or said things to cause embarrassment. But, for the most part, such disagreements have been kept out of the limelight.
EPA/Andrew Harrer
In a crisis, governments often act just to be seen to be doing something. The difference with what Trump’s doing is that there is no crisis.
Syrian children remove rubble Aleppo, Syria.
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
This roundup from our archives explains some of the major conflicts unfolding in the seven countries singled out by Trump’s executive order.
Interventionism, not isolationism, is the norm in US foreign policy – and Donald Trump’s rise will not change that.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
The US has never been opposed to international engagement, or even international co-operation – but it must always be co-operation on American terms.
Time for another ‘reset’?
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As Trump explores warmer ties to Russia, he’d be wise to brush up on the history of past resets and the role the oil industry played in each one. The results weren’t good.
Is New York big enough for both the UN and Donald Trump?
EPA/Matt Campbell
Cutting off funds for crucial UN bodies could have disastrous consequences for the world order.
What can we expect from a Trump administration on the home front?
EPA/Ron Sachs
In a special Race to the White House episode, Brendon O'Connor and Tom Switzer talk with Emma Lancaster about Donald Trump's inaugural address.
A Trump administration raises many questions about how America’s relationships with other world powers will play out.
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Far from ‘making America great again’, Donald Trump’s sloganeering will deepen mistrust of US motives and irreparably damage any prospect of co-existence, let alone a more co-operative world order.
Obama out.
EPA/Matthew Cavanaugh
The 44th president is now gone. What mark does he leave on his country?
A president’s words have incalculable diplomatic power.
EPA/Frank Rumpenhorst
Decades – even centuries – have gone into building the diplomatic protocols on which we all rely. Is all that work being undone?
EPA/Sergei Ilnitsky
As his nominee for secretary of state awaits confirmation, Donald Trump is under pressure to explain what his views on Russia actually are.
Hard feelings in Tehran.
EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh
What the Obama administration achieved with Iran deserves great credit. But can it endure?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu offer flowers in memory of slain Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov.
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Ambassador Karlov’s death will weaken Turkey’s influence in the Syrian conflict.