Lindsey Ford argues that to advance the American debate on China in 2020, the focus of the conversation needs to move away from Beijing and back to the United States, its allies, and the complex policy decisions they face to build a more unified coalition.
In a new report for Brookings and the Tent Partnership for Refugees, Kemal Kirişci proposes the European Union offer trade concessions to Turkey designed to promote formal employment of Syrian refugees in Turkey's agricultural sector.
Steven Pifer writes that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Kyiv last week was welcomed after a difficult period given impeachment and outlines steps to further strengthen relations.
In "Fateful Triangle," a new book published by the Brookings Institution Press, Tanvi Madan examines how American and Indian perceptions of and policy toward China significantly shaped U.S.-India relations from 1949 to 1979, and draws lessons for today.
Join us at Brookings on Wednesday, February 12 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM EST as Madan discusses the book with Kurt Campbell, Thomas Wright, and James Astill.
Israel, Palestine, and the Trump plan
The Trump Middle East proposal. Shibley Telhami writes that the Trump administration's Middle East proposal is likely to lead to resentment even among allied governments, and that the plan's principle of ignoring the past is particularly problematic.
More deep problems with the "deal." Omar Rahman describes the Trump administration's Middle East plan as "an endorsement of the indefensible," sanctifying Israeli territorial maximalism in coordination with Israeli right-wing leaders.
The American presidency
The State of the Union. Brookings experts react to President Trump's State of the Union address, with William Burke-White, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Samantha Gross, and David Victor commenting on border, trade, and climate policies.
"Immature leadership." Writing in International Affairs, Daniel Drezner examines what the record of a U.S. president whose "individual psychology [uniquely] degrades his ability to be conventionally effective" tells us about the powers of the office.
International affairs
Shipping and the trade war. David Dollar and Lori Ann LaRocco discuss what recent shipping flows can tell us about the effects of the U.S.-China trade war, on the Dollar & Sense podcast.
Germany and its far right. The hard-right Alternative for Germany helped install a surprise minister president in the eastern German state of Thuringia, setting off a "political earthquake" with national ramifications, as Constanze Stelzenmüller describes.
Arms control. Steven Pifer argues that it should not be surprising that President Trump's idea of developing an arms control proposal for negotiations covering all nuclear weapons and China as well as Russia has come to naught.
