Charles Kupchan

Charles A. Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs from 2014 to 2017.
Stories by Charles Kupchan
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on May 16, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

America and Turkey Need to Step Back From the Brink
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Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang talks to U.S. President Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11. (Photo credit Jorge Silva/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Cozying Up to Trump Works
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) arrives at the East Room of the White House as Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) (R) wait for the beginning of a meeting June 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump invited all GOP Senate members to the White House to discuss the Health Care bill. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Damage Limitation Presidency: Can Congress and the Adults Box in Trump?
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TOPSHOT - (Front row, LtoR) Taoiseach of Ireland Enda Kenny, Hungary's prime Minister Viktor Orban, President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Malta's Prime minister Joseph Muscat, France's President Francois Hollande, President of Romania Klaus Werner Iohannis, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, and (second row, LtoR) Estonia's prime Minister Juri Ratas, Federal Chancellor of Austria Christian Kern, Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa, Greec's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila, Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, Czech Republic's Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar, Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, Latvia's Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis, Croatia's prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Rome's Mayor Virginia Raggi pose for a family photo during a special summit of EU leaders to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc's founding Treaty of Rome, on March 25, 2017 at Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill). Against a backdrop of crises and in the absence of the departing Britain, the leaders signed a new Rome declaration, six decades after the six founding members signed the Treaty of Rome and gave birth to the European Economic Community. / AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)

The West Will Have to Go It Alone, Without the United States
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(COMBO) This combination of file photos created on January 16, 2017 shows US President-elect Donald Trump (December 16, 2016 in Orlando, Florida) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R, September 17, 2013 in Magdeburg). Chancellor Angela Merkel made a "catastrophic mistake" in letting migrants flood into Germany, US President-elect Donald Trump said in a newspaper interview on January 15, 2017. / AFP / Jim WATSON AND Ronny HARTMANN (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON,RONNY HARTMANN/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump and Merkel Need to Find a Way to Work Together
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