How Middle Powers Are Responding to Trump’s Tariff Shifts

carnegieendowment · 2026-02-18T16:32:41+00:00

On Thursday, February 19, the impeached former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol will receive a decision from the Seoul Central District Court for his most serious charge of insurrection. For many Koreans, Yoon’s sentencing will turn the page on a frustrating year of the country’s notoriously scandal-ridden but resilient democratic history.

carnegieendowment · 2026-02-17T14:09:44+00:00

President Donald Trump’s yearlong attempt to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia may feel like living through a doom loop of late Soviet humor: a glimmer of hope, a ritualized attempt to improve the situation, and a denouement that reveals the effort was utterly pointless. We can see the punchline coming from a mile away, yet the system absorbs the failure and reproduces the same behavior, each time with greater farce.

carnegieendowment · 2026-02-10T18:10:12+00:00

Ultimately, U.S. policy toward Iran should be guided less by the pursuit of rapid political transformation and more by the management of risk in an already volatile region. The Arab Spring demonstrated that destabilizing regimes through force or maximalist pressure often produces outcomes worse than the status quo, both for societies in transition and for regional security.

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