Four Years of Innovation and Continuity in U.S. Policy: Arms Control and International Security Since January 2017

In this ACIS Paper, Assistant Secretary Ford looks across the policy arenas covered by the State Department’s “T” family of bureaus to provide a survey and summary of policy development and innovation in key issue areas since the current U.S. administration took office in January 2017.

With the 2020 U.S. Presidential election now behind us, and the U.S. government poised to transfer to a new administration, this paper surveys a range of U.S. foreign and national security policy developments since the current U.S. administration took office in January 2017.