Foreign Policy

With humility and our collective morals and values, we must extinguish the flames of hubris in US foreign and domestic policy, or "our arrogance will be our doom."

This is an Iranian uprising, and it is up to the people of Iran to decide their own future.

Experts examine legal, political, and security dimensions of U.S. policy on Greenland, including U.S.-NATO relations, congressional oversight, and geopolitical implications.  

Trump’s threats to invade Greenland risk destroying NATO itself, but a little-known statute, 22 U.S.C. 1928f, could prevent him from doing just that.

The U.S. withdrawal from the UNFCCC is a further blow to climate cooperation and a demonstration of U.S. foreign policy volatility.

Whatever the modest cost-savings that are generated by this U.S. withdrawal from the multilateral system, the loss of long-term influence will be far greater.

For international criminal law to remain a compelling set of norms, the central principles that formed Nuremberg must be vigorously defended.

Trump’s foreign policy remains an inconsistent array of initiatives and adventures: bold in Latin America, bad in Greenland, yet often constructive on Ukrainian security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the West promised not to expand NATO is a myth—denied by Gorbachev, ignored by Yeltsin, and invented years into Putin’s rule.

Experts survey the international law issues of Operation Absolute Resolve.

What stories or topics merited more attention in 2025, and which might inform law and policy conversations in 2026?

A catalog of articles analyzing the diplomatic, political, legal, security, and humanitarian consequences of the international climate crisis.