In the weeks immediately following his historic 2008 win, President-elect Obama was careful not to elaborate on the foreign policy positions on which he had campaigned. Commentators noted his likely desi...

Read John Bellinger's Lloyd Cutler Lecture on Rule of Law at the Supreme Court.

Now that the United States has put its historic elections behind it, and as we go about examining the poll results, it’s clear that we cannot keep reducing the factors involved in facilitating the electi...

After a jerky start, the Trump transition appears to be well underway. As of this morning the President-elect has selected three key members of his national security team: Senator Jeff Sessions for Attor...

What security-related executive orders are likely to be repealed in whole or in part soon after Donald Trump is sworn in as president? I list some obvious ones below, and will be happy to update the lis...

“Sometimes it pays to be a little wild,” wrote Donald J. Trump, President-elect of the United States, in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal. The outcome of last week’s Presidential election proved h...

Many U.S. allies have spent the last week pondering what Donald Trump’s election means for their foreign policy and national security. The tiny Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are surely ...

Climate Legacy Coming Undone

Several weeks ago, we suggested President Obama take a trip to Kansas to visit a small town reeling from an attempted violent attack on a Muslim immigrant community there. At that time, three men had rec...

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz. During the campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the jihadist threat to the United States. Although he diagnoses the problem ver...

The Trump presidency will have a significant impact on international law, including a potential withdrawal from or re-negotiation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Iran nuclear deal.