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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.

The organization was never designed to enforce a political order in its members.

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.

Donald Trump has the completely wrong approach. Boosting border security means spending more, not less, in Central America.

Seventy years ago, a creative British foreign secretary was instrumental in forming the Atlantic alliance. Now the UK’s leadership is needed again.

In the current political environment, the legitimacy of the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and Moscow’s interference in elections rests on it being made public.

Although they haven’t even started yet, United States-European Union trade talks already face major obstacles. Moving forward is critical to end the ‘tug of war’ between the US and EU. The best way to get there is to take a multifaceted approach aimed at both the transatlantic market and the global trading system.

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

In the first edition in a series exploring the progress of women in international affairs, Amy Pope and Stacey Abrams speak to Gitika Bhardwaj about the growth in women serving in US politics and what challenges remain ahead.

Conflicting public opinion about America’s role in the world is not unique to the era of Trump and ‘America first’.

Leslie Vinjamuri speaks to Gitika Bhardwaj about the state of the climate debate in the US and how the new Democrat-controlled House of Representatives can change the conversation.

Despite significant financial expenditure and thousands of lives lost, a fundamental shift in policy remains unimaginable at present.