Joe Biden

After years of denouncing Obama and cozying up to Trump, Saudi Arabia is trying to resurrect its influence among Democrats in advance of the 2020 election. It won’t work.

Candidates have faced fewer global questions since the elections of 2004 and 2008, but China and trade have remained consistently popular topics.

Eight things to read before the candidates meet.

Sri Lanka deals with the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks.

No one can touch him on foreign-policy experience, especially Trump. But his long voting record will also be a vulnerability, starting with Iraq.

Joe Biden is the only candidate for the White House with a foreign-policy philosophy that’s proven to work.

After eight years at Foreign Policy, here are the ten most popular Best Defense posts.

In Poland, the president had all the facts and stories and history right, but drew all the wrong lessons.

As Biden delivers his valedictory address at the World Economic Forum, we wonder what might have been.

The vice president has mischaracterized U.S. foreign policy under Obama.

The vice president singles out Trump’s friendliness toward Russia and his claim that Obama “founded” ISIS as evidence the GOP nominee is “already making our country less safe.”

Echoing some of Hillary Clinton’s new attack lines, Vice President Joe Biden tore into Republican businessman Donald Trump on Monday and warned that the presumptive GOP nominee’s calls to profile Muslims or bar them from entering the country will leave the United States less safe.

The veep may have poor timing, but when it comes to Iraq, he's the only one in the Obama administration trying to save it.

In unscripted moment at the Vatican, the U.S. veep seeks absolution not for betting on cars, but for losing.

Chafee drops out, further thinning the 2016 Democratic field for Hillary Clinton.

The vice president vowed to speak out if Hillary sways from Obama’s foreign policy. Here are the top five times the two disagreed on national security.

Guatemala's president has been sent to jail amid allegations of massive corruption, flinging the country into uncharted territory as it prepares for Sunday's elections.

In putting the fight for Anbar before Mosul, Iraq seeks to win over suspicious Sunnis. To do so, Washington says Baghdad should also limit the role of Shiite militias backed by Iran.

How to build the right kind of future with Central America.

The White House promised Ukraine $75 million in new aid and the IMF approved a $17.5 billion loan for the country's struggling economy Wednesday. But it's not clear if either measure will be enough to save Ukraine.