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Economic considerations drive the positive and negative narratives on China in Italy. The country is a trading nation and the current government wants to stay on good terms with China – as much as this may cause uncertainty to the transatlantic relationship.

While the politics of gun violence have not been front and centre this election cycle, it’s alive in the national conversation and is wedged deep in the psyche of Americans.

With less than two weeks left until the elections, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off for the final time on 22 October.

The international community should use its leverage to press for an inclusive approach to Afghan constitutional politics.

What difference can an election make? A range of leading experts consider the most pressing foreign policy challenges for the next US president, and examine how the outcome of the 2020 election will affect these. 

The Sunshine State is a critical battleground for winning the electoral college, and the presidency.

A ‘diplomatic romance’ between old friends ultimately reflects a convergence of interests – Canada and the UK have good reasons to gravitate towards each other.

On 7 October, Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris went head-to-head in the first and only vice presidential debate.

Trump’s determination to appear strong in the face of physical weakness is redolent of occupants of the Kremlin – the problem for him is that US democracy has been designed to check strongman politics.

The US, EU, and UK should focus on their set of bilateral trade negotiations, address shared concerns regarding the global trade system, and remove underlying trade tensions among themselves.

On 29 September, US President Donald Trump went head-to-head with Vice President Joe Biden in the first presidential debate of the 2020 US election. Anar Bata spoke with experts across Chatham House to get their views on the key debate moments and the implications for the US election.

This past Friday Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, creating an open seat on the nation’s highest court six weeks before the presidential election

The 21st-century global economy has different drivers from those in the previous century. Amid ever more politicized trade relations, economic diplomacy needs a more transparent framework.

With trade tensions increasingly politicized, a key appeals process suspended and COVID-19 creating huge economic challenges, a modernized and fully functioning WTO is more essential than ever. This paper makes the case for transatlantic cooperation as a necessary, though insufficient alone, condition for WTO reform.

The identity of the next US president is yet to be determined, but the foreign policy views of the American public are already clear. In principle, Americans support US engagement in the world but, in practice, they worry other countries take advantage of the United States.

If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the elections in November, they will face the enormous challenge of rebuilding America's relationships with the world.

180,000 Americans have died from coronavirus – but the president proclaimed his successful record and attacked Biden as a threat to the US.

For the last four years, our nation – and indeed the world – has watched the Trump administration repeatedly abdicate their responsibilities on everything from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic; and so cities, especially New York City, have risen to the occasion to become the emblem of 21st century American leadership.

The decision to participate in an election is not about assigning legitimacy, but about choosing a terrain in which to contest power from an authoritarian regime.

Because caucuses and primaries occur long before the actual convention and signal who the next presidential candidate will be, conventions have morphed into largely symbolic gatherings to showcase a unified party approach and the commitments and values of the nominee.

Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate will have a lasting impact on how Americans think about the presidential ticket, and confirms the violent killing of George Floyd unleashed a demand for racial equality that continues to have dramatic impact.

Rejecting science, creating enemies and polarizing discourse are part of Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership style. But can this style survive the simultaneous economic, political and social crisis that the pandemic has unravelled?