Emma Ashford

For nearly three decades after the end of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy was characterized by a bipartisan consensus: that as the world’s “indispensable nation”...

The Times columnist Bret Stephens hosted an online conversation with Emma Ashford, a senior fellow in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, and...

The latest poorly defined buzzword in Washington is leading pundits and policymakers down a dangerous path.  

We’ve spent the last year of the pandemic locked inside with our children, managing Zoom school and frantically trying to come up with new ideas for entertaining our...

During Donald Trump’s presidency, many senior national security roles came to resemble the post of Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher: The jobs were fraught...

After a pro-Trump mob stormed Congress, Americans might have a harder time accomplishing their diplomatic goals from Europe to China.  

Wednesday’s failed insurrection shows how the global ambitions of foreign-policy elites are divorced from reality—and undermined by domestic dysfunction.