Foreign Policy

Could aircraft carriers be eclipsed by new technology? We breakdown the top defense and foreign policy articles for your weekend.

It remains in Beijing’s self-interest to provide aid to Pyongyang. The alternatives, like a North Korean collapse, could be far worse.

There’s good reason to believe Iran would be interested in negotiating a future for Syria that didn’t include Assad.

Zachary Keck explains that “shuttle diplomacy of the kind Kissinger undertook belongs to the dustbin of history.”

The Diplomat’s Editor selects the top five defense and foreign policy articles for your weekend reading pleasure.

Likely not – Chinese diplomats have usually handled their differences with N. Korea behind the scenes.

"Because North Korea has such a rich history of extreme rhetoric, they must be more and more extreme in each crisis..."

“In reality, decline is not a foregone conclusion but a deliberate political choice that builds from a failure to define what matters most to the nation.”

Mapping a grand strategy to strengthen and enhance America’s role in the world.

The United States must cooperate with public and private partners to tackle this vital issue.

The U.S. faces tremendous challenges at home and abroad. Without a grand strategy, America’s perilous drift is likely to continue, and worsen.

“Victory may go to the contestant who conveys ideas more fluently, not the one with superior ideas.”