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Debates and caucuses are proving that the party took the wrong lesson from the midterms. They're now applying that lesson to 2020 with potentially disastrous results.

Following a year of protests, extreme politics and the emergence of new and sophisticated security challenges, Robert Malley and Leslie Vinjamuri examine the International Crisis Group’s Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2020.

Brussels will find its much-vaunted heft in setting standards cannot help it advance its geopolitical interests, argues Alan Beattie.

Chatham House's Dr Christopher Sabatini was interviewed alongside a group of experts for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics documentary “Dismantling Democracy.” 

The UK government seems to have balanced competing interests of the economy, national security and relations with America. But the full US response remains to be seen.

The US and Americas Programme at Chatham House will be engaging in a yearlong focus on the US 2020 elections. This is the first in an intended series of pieces that will look closely at the dynamics of the race and the key policy issue areas that will be shaped by the outcome of these pivotal elections.

As part of the launch of Chatham House’s centenary celebrations for 2020, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven T Mnuchin reflects on the future of the global order.

Democrats would be wise to communicate a clear alternative to Trump’s ‘America First’ policy in the Middle East.

The US and Americas Programme at Chatham House and foreign policy experts from across the United States and Europe share their views on United States foreign policy in 2020: As we look ahead to the next decade, what is a pivotal US foreign policy issue you will be watching? How do you imagine this issue could be addressed?  

Hans Kundnani explores the striking similarities, but also key differences, between the US alliances in Europe and Asia.

2020 is likely to see a truce in the US-China trade war to see the former through the presidential election. But, thereafter, tensions are likely to resume, writes Dr Linda Yueh.

NATO turned 70 this year, an event that would seem to merit the pop of a cork or two. But the anniversary passed in desultory fashion.

As Haiti enters its 12th week of political turmoil and economic inactivity, a path forward remains blocked by a standoff between an unpopular president and a diverse opposition unable so far to coalesce politically to force his ouster.

With international institutions being questioned—ironically, by the very nations that created them—NATO’s next seventy years will be a rougher ride than the first seventy.

A Q&A with Professor Roland Paris, Professor of International Affairs, University of Ottawa and formerly Senior Advisor on Global Affairs and Defence to the Prime Minister of Canada (2015-16)

As internet governance issues emerge in the wake of innovations such as the Internet of Things and advanced artificial intelligence, there is an urgent need for the EU and US to establish a common, positive multi-stakeholder vision for regulating and governing the internet.

The popular uprisings in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Haiti have many different causes and one thing in common: If history is any indicator, the outlook for genuine, lasting change is grim.

The current dispute between the US and China goes far beyond trade tariffs and tit-for-tat reprisals: the underlying driver is a race for global technological supremacy. This paper examines the risks of greater strategic competition as well as potential solutions for mitigating the impacts of the US–China economic confrontation.

The champions of global trade are inadvertently taking steps that undermine the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

In the context of recent developments, this paper reviews US President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy and explores possible pathways to a new nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic.

Lindsay Newman and Leslie Vinjamuri survey the damage the president’s latest move has done to US foreign policy.

This paper examines the governance problems in the monetary system and global trade and regulation. It then explores whether issues have arisen because the US has given up its dominant role, and if so how these might be rectified.

The demand will be there, but a range of barriers are likely to limit growth in agricultural trade links between the UK and Latin America.

Chatham House experts examine how the latest presidential scandal might play out in US domestic politics, in Ukraine and in international affairs.

From the moment President Trump succeeded in his 2016 election promise to deliver “Brexit times 10,” through to Boris Johnson’s election in July as the new leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister (Trump has dubbed him “Britain Trump”), there has been a remarkable political symbiosis between the U.S. and Britain.

With no end in sight for the trade tensions between the US and China, efforts to advance the circular economy in both economies are seemingly under threat.

The growth of Chinese wealth and military power, combined with a more diplomatically and militarily active regime in Beijing, represents an epochal change in international politics.

The Cuban autocracy remains a nagging reminder of United States impotence in rooting out Communism.

The first few gatherings of the G20, at the height of the global financial crisis, yielded concrete results, and seemed to promise an auspicious future for global governance. But in the years since, the group has increasingly replaced action with empty talk.

The Peace to Prosperity plan being promoted by the Trump administration is either naïve or disingenuous, and has no chance of succeeding.

Many middle powers have been warning of the dangers inherent in the decline of the liberal international order. The time has come for these countries to translate their warnings into concerted action.

The nationalist urge to keep the world off your back extends to foreign finance.

As necessary as it remains to improve rules-based systems, the future of international order will also rely on states engaging more creatively with a wider range of constituencies – from citizens and civil society to the private sector and local political actors.

Chatham House experts examine some of the fault lines in the relationship between the US, the UK and Europe as the US president comes to London.

In relations with Europe, President Trump has exposed pitilessly the fact that, while might may not be right, might generally wins.

The US retains tremendous wealth and military strength, but hyper-partisanship is draining the country’s ‘usable power’.

Though it is under political pressure, there are reasons to be hopeful about the World Trade Organization’s future.

This piece recommends a framework for strengthening US-EU trade relations and achieving successful trade talks in the current era of protectionism.

Britain’s EU departure could be used to transform the future of NATO as well as improve the UK’s relationship with the United States.