The Donald Trump administration has achieved notable successes in asserting American dominance on the world stage, and it is likely to shift its focus even more to foreign policy as we approach the midterm elections. However, those achievements are already outpacing the capacity of the administration’s tactical approach to deal-making. In the latest policy brief from the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe takes a look at the foreign policy challenges that lie ahead.

The White House would prefer to avoid anything that remotely resembles the long wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has dismantled a large part of the bureaucracy that had accumulated from those conflicts. However, in many parts of the world, the administration will find........

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