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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference, in Ankara, Turkey on May 14, 2022. Within a two-week span, Turkey's president has caused a stir by throwing a wrench in Sweden and Finland's historic bid to join the NATO alliance, lashed out at NATO-ally Greece and announced plans for a new incursion into Syria.

Elizabeth Shackelford: When it comes to Turkey, NATO needs to consider divorce

June 2, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

This week, I'm getting married in France. I should be writing my vows, but instead I'm writing this column, though the concept of marriage is still on my mind. Being...

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right, marks his election win with incumbent leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, at the Halane military camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, May 15, 2022. Former President Mohamud, who was voted out of power in 2017, has been returned to the nation's top office after defeating the incumbent leader in a protracted contest decided by legislators in a third round of voting late Sunday.

Elizabeth Shackelford: In Somalia, business as usual is a bad idea for US interests

May 19, 2022 at 10:51 a.m.

Somalia swore in a new president last weekend after nearly two years of delay as the incumbent clung to power. The next day, the administration of President Joe Biden said...

Residents use hoses to collect drinking water from a tanker truck during a hot day in New Delhi on May 3, 2022.

Elizabeth Shackelford: To our peril, the world isn’t taking climate change seriously

May 5, 2022 at 2:09 p.m.

India's record-breaking heat wave has been a footnote in the news cycle. I would hardly have noticed myself, but my fiance, a commercial airline pilot, checked the weather ahead of...

U.S. military personnel stand by a U.S.-made M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during the Saudi Arabias World Defense Show, near Riyadh, on March 6, 2022.

Elizabeth Shackelford: It’s time to leave Saudi Arabia to the wolves

April 21, 2022 at 1:05 p.m.

America's long-standing partnership with Saudi Arabia has become a deal with the devil. But the devil isn't holding up his end of the bargain. It's time we gave up on...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives an international news conference on April 6, 2022, in Budapest after his Fidesz party won the parliamentary election earlier in the week.

Elizabeth Shackelford: The EU’s awkward Hungary issue

April 7, 2022 at 4:17 p.m.

On April 3, Hungary's anti-liberal, ultranationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, won a fourth term. While the West remains fixated on the war next door in Ukraine, the threat of Hungary's...

President Joe Biden takes his seat watched by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from left, in preparation for the G7 Summit at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 24.

Elizabeth Shackelford: How to lead with diplomacy, and not just in Ukraine

March 24, 2022 at 11:55 a.m.

President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy advisers have demonstrated how effective diplomacy can be in a crisis. They have worked tirelessly to build a powerful, coordinated response to...

The body of a Russian soldier lies near destroyed Russian vehicles the day after fighting with Ukrainian soldiers on a highway outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

Elizabeth Shackelford: What more can the West do to help Ukraine?

March 11, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

On March 8, the United States banned the import of Russian oil and gas, the latest in a slew of sanctions imposed on Russia since the invasion. But from Kyiv...

Ukrainians demonstrate outside Downing Street against the recent invasion of Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, in London. Overnight, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with explosions reported in several cities and far outside the restive eastern regions held by Russian-backed rebels. European governments reacted with widespread condemnation and vows of more sanctions.

Elizabeth Shackelford: If Putin doesn’t fear Western sanctions, his cronies might

February 24, 2022 at 10:57 a.m.

A decade ago, I was a U.S. diplomat serving in Warsaw, Poland. I had a close group of Polish friends who, while not in the field of foreign affairs, had...

A man in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, holds a portrait of Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in the country after a military coup in January. West Africa is grappling with a wave of military coups over the past 18 months that has some wondering which country could be next.

Elizabeth Shackelford: Coups are happening where democracy is failing

February 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The latest blow to democracy is the explosion of coups around the world. Weak democratic governments that are failing to deliver are being overthrown. This global phenomenon has been most...

A Ukrainian soldier in a trench on the front line in Popasna, Ukraine, Jan. 24, 2022. A significantly upgraded military has emerged as a key tool of Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, as he flexes his might around the globe and, most ominously, on the Ukraine border.

Op-ed: Ukraine is a test for Biden’s foreign policy doctrine

January 27, 2022 at 10:24 a.m.

President Joe Biden promised to change U.S. foreign policy after two decades of a costly military-driven approach and four years of an America-first shift away from our allies. He committed...

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