But even as ties have grown in recent years, Washington’s foreign policy establishment still considers Africa to be a strategic backwater. U.S. embassies in the region remain understaffed and underresourced.

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan discuss new reporting by Jane Meyer in The New Yorker about Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary,

Outgoing US presidents often struggle to hold authority at home and abroad, but this transition seems particularly fraught.

While Biden attempts to lock in policy priorities with partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Trump’s good graces.

The State Department has been shut out of Donald Trump's calls with world leaders, raising concerns about confusion over U.S. foreign policy.

The world is braced for disruption from the president-elect, but he may find more common ground with President Biden than many assume.

Once Trump is sworn in, many will be watching to see where he decides to go on his first international trip, which can signal a president's priorities. Trump's first foreign trip in his first term had six stops starting in Saudi Arabia, then Israel, the West Bank, Vatican City, Belgium and Sicily.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO during his second four-year term and rapidly bring the war in Ukraine to a close. On the campaign trail,

The U.S. can use its oil and gas capabilities as carrot and stick, Carolyn Kissane writes in a guest commentary.

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan discuss the history of Thanksgiving in America and what we're thankful for following the 2024 election.

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former U.S. State Department Middle East analyst and negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations. He is the author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President. X: @aarondmiller2

President-elect Donald Trump railed against President Joe Biden's foreign policy, but as he enters the White House, Trump may end up agreeing more than he thinks. The New York Times outlined some of the ways that Trump has claimed he and Biden differ,