Devon Cone is a consultant focusing on humanitarian affairs and forced migration. She has worked with UNHCR and NGOs as a resettlement caseworker from 2008 to 2015 in Africa and the Middle East. She is currently conducting an in-depth evaluation of refugee admissions processes for the U.S. State Department. Follow her on Twitter: @devoncone
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MELILLA, SPAIN - JANUARY 22: Syrian refugees who were staying at the Temporary Immigration Centre (CETI) wait for getting their passports and tickets at the the Ferry Terminal of Melilla where they will board a cruise bound to Malaga on the Spanish mailland on January 22, 2015 in Melilla, Spain. According to Spanish Police approximately 2,400 from the 5,000 immigrants entering Melilla last year were Syrians seeking asylum in various European countries. The majority of those now housed in Temporary Immigration Centres (CETI) in Ceuta and Melilla have escaped from war in Syria. According to the last official figures released by the Spanish Authorities, 1,300 immigrants are living at the Temporary Immigration Centre of Melilla, four times its capacity of 480 people. About 840 Syrian refugees are among them outnumbering Sub-Sahara immigrants for the first time since these camps were built. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Two years into his first term, how has U.S. President Joe Biden fared on foreign policy? Is there a clear Biden doctrine? Is America in a stronger or weaker position globally?
The answers ...Show moredepend on whom you ask.
Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a lively discussion about the Biden administration’s foreign-policy successes and failures half way through his first term, with Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Nadia Schadlow, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former U.S. deputy national security advisor for strategy during the Trump administration.
A Russian flag at the Embassy of Russia is seen through a bus stop post in Washington, DC on April 15, 2021. - The US announced sanctions against Russia on April 15, 2021, and the expulsion of 10 diplomats in retaliation for what Washington says is the Kremlin's US election interference, a massive cyber attack and other hostile activity. President Joe Biden ordered a widening of restrictions on US banks trading in Russian government debt, expelled 10 diplomats who include alleged spies, and sanctioned 32 individuals alleged to have tried to meddle in the 2020 presidential election, the White House said. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
When Washington seeks to curtail Beijing’s ambitions or punish Moscow for its war in Ukraine, it often turns to a familiar tool: sanctions. In the last two years, the Biden administration ...Show morehas deployed unprecedented muscle in the form of sanctions as part of its foreign-policy arsenal.
The question is whether those sanctions work effectively. In which countries are they achieving their desired impact? Where are they less successful? And how does the use of sanctions impact U.S. power more broadly?
Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal in conversation with two experts: Agathe Demarais, the global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit, and Nicholas Mulder, an assistant professor of history and a Milstein faculty fellow at Cornell University. Together, they will explore whether sanctions are an effective tool to achieve U.S. interests abroad and how the government might improve them.
Last week, Germany and the United States announced that they would be supplying Ukraine with dozens of Leopard 2 and M1 Abrams tanks to combat Russia’s invasion. Moscow said these tanks we...Show morere more evidence of direct and growing involvement by the West in the conflict. How will the delivery of these tanks change, and potentially escalate, fighting in Ukraine? And is NATO as united as it was earlier in the war?
For the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war, watch FP executive editor Amelia Lester’s timely conversation with FP’s team of reporters.
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