Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America's stature abroad. In his

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump has vowed to remake U.S. foreign policy and has assembled a team

During today's White House press briefing, Jake Sullivan was asked whether he believed that the Biden Administration's foreign policy influenced the 2024 Presidential election's outcome.

Speaking as much to the history books as to the civil servants gathered at the State Department on Monday afternoon, President Joe Biden said U.S. foreign policy during his term had put the United States and its allies on a stronger footing, another effort to use his final days in office to burnish his presidential legacy.

Biden defended his conduct of foreign policy at the State Department on Monday: "The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago." That is mostly true, writes Michael Sean Winters.

How this plays out remains to be seen, although, given the failures of the last four years, it is worth trying something new, no matter how unorthodox it may seem.

This year offers an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the troubled US relationship with Bolivia. The new US administration has promised to shake things up in domestic and foreign policy. In Bolivia, meanwhile, a deep economic crisis under President Luis Arce will likely lead to political change following the August elections.

As US President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume office in the US, he is likely to work on his election promises in first days of his presidency. His election promises include key foreign policy changes,

Beijing is taking a two-pronged approach to the incoming president: trying to sweeten up Trump while also signaling it is ready to fight efforts to constrain it.

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Musk’s political involvement appears to be largely aimed at giving succour to populist individuals, parties and causes, as well as actively hollowing out centrist parties in other countries. Musk’s political intrusion, however, has expanded of late, with an apparent eye on election results.