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A Year of Global Protest

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Chloe Hadavas

The Year That Took India and Pakistan to the Brink

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Audrey Wilson

2025 Redefined the U.S.-China Rivalry

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Megan Dubois

FP’s Holiday Book List

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Fp Staff

The Best Conversations of the Year

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Dana Sherne

South Asia’s Difficult Year

South Asia’s Difficult Year

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. It has been a rough year for South Asia, which has suffered surging terrorism, economic stress,...

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Michael Kugelman

Latin America’s Turbulent Year

Latin America’s Turbulent Year

The year’s best stories Shortly after taking office in January, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to carry out what he called an...

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Allison Meakem

Read From This Year’s Buzziest Books

Read From This Year’s Buzziest Books

The year’s best stories One of the greatest pleasures of running Foreign Policy’s Books section is getting to peruse highly anticipated books...

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Chloe Hadavas

The Winners and Losers of Trump’s New Foreign Policy

The Winners and Losers of Trump’s New Foreign Policy

The year’s best stories When describing U.S. President Donald Trump’s governing style, and particularly his relationships with other countries, two...

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Fp Staff

How the Russia-Ukraine War Shifted in 2025

How the Russia-Ukraine War Shifted in 2025

The year’s best stories Almost four years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting have...

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Stefan Theil

Africa’s Year in Review

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Nosmot Gbadamosi

New Geopolitical Words We Learned in 2025

New Geopolitical Words We Learned in 2025

The year’s best stories The Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year is parasocial, which means “involving or relating to a connection that someone...

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Elisabeth Braw

The Movies That Made Us Think This Year

The Movies That Made Us Think This Year

The year’s best stories In 2025, as Foreign Policy expanded its film and television coverage, it seemed that the geopolitical turbulence of recent...

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Megan Dubois

China’s Year of Patience

China’s Year of Patience

The year’s best stories Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. It’s been a year of patience for China, as the country struggles to shake off the...

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James Palmer

Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Are Far From Over

Welcome to World Brief: Holiday Edition! For the next two weeks, an extended World Brief will land in your inbox on Monday, focused on today’s...

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Alexandra Sharp

How Trump Shaped 2025

How Trump Shaped 2025

2025 was a year of geopolitical tumult, and one person seemed at the center of it all: U.S. President Donald Trump. From tariffs and the trade war...

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Ravi Agrawal

Trump’s Fake Peace Deals Are Dangerous

Trump’s Fake Peace Deals Are Dangerous

It’s the holiday season, which is an ideal occasion to remind readers of the importance of peace and the steps that we should take to make it more...

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Stephen M. Walt

The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year

The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year

The year’s best stories In 2025, Foreign Policy contributors leaned on their unique areas of expertise to weigh in on the buzziest books of the...

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Chloe Hadavas

The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0 

The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0 

The year’s best stories When U.S. President Donald Trump completed the first 100 days of his second term in office, we published a list of the...

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Fp Staff

A War Film to Change All War Films

War is hard to watch—real war, that is, not the stuff of video games or action movies. The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes....

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Christian Caryl

There’s No Precedent for Ukraine’s Proposed Peace Deal

There’s No Precedent for Ukraine’s Proposed Peace Deal

The difficult decision that Ukraine’s government now faces is between enduring continued bombing by Russia and relinquishing sovereign land to...

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Anchal Vohra

EU Backs $105 Billion Loan to Ukraine

EU Backs $105 Billion Loan to Ukraine

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the European Union’s financial...

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Alexandra Sharp

Misreading Iran

The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the collapse of the pro-United States Pahlavi monarchy, and its replacement by a hostile Islamist regime marked the...

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Gregory Brew

A Raucous Reckoning With Brazil’s Dictatorship

A Raucous Reckoning With Brazil’s Dictatorship

The Secret Agent, the latest feature by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, opens on a desolate, sun-soaked gas station outside Recife, a...

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Lucas Iberico Lozada