On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating, making it the last major rating agency to strip the United States of its Aaa rating. This downgrade is more than a technical ...

As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had ...

On May 7, 2025, India launched missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. India stated that the strikes targeted terrorist infrastructure, while Pakistan rejected India’s ...

The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to walk away from Ukraine if there is no progress on a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. Although the administration has sent mixed signals, its ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will arrive in Washington this week as part of a last-ditch effort to salvage what is left of his country’s bilateral relationship with the United States and ...

In Ecuador’s April 13 run-off presidential election, Daniel Noboa—the 37-year-old candidate from the National Democratic Action Party (ADN)—was elected with 55.6 percent of the popular vote, securing ...

(Apologies to the late Aretha Franklin for the title.) Two weeks ago, when I wrote about the panoply of trade deals coming our way, I omitted China, calling it a special case. I had intended to get to ...

President Donald Trump spoke with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other leaders in separate calls Monday, in an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of ...

South Korea’s surprise economic contraction in the first quarter shows it was one of the first countries to feel the negative effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape international ...

This analysis of IS-K was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of Islamic State Khorasan from the Transnational Threats Project, please click here. Islamic State ...

Hadeil Ali is chief of staff of the Global Development Department and director of the Diversity and Leadership in International Affairs Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ...

Idayat Hassan is an expert with over 20 years of experience fostering peace, democracy, and development across West Africa. As the former director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, she ...