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In an episode that has tediously repeated itself several times since July, Turkey’s seismic-survey ships and navy vessels clash with Greek...
In 1986, the British satire Yes, Prime Minister invented the politician’s syllogism: something must be done, this is something, therefore we must...
With less than 24 hours left in office, the Trump administration on Tuesday declared that China’s violent repression against its Uighur...
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden placed renewal of the world’s democracies high on his agenda, pledging in the first year of his presidency to...
Sometimes seismic change has an unlikely beginning. Back in 2007, American diplomats stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing were worried about...
Big Tech’s post-insurrection backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump and the right-wing online incitement machine were unprecedented. Within...
National Guard officers march toward a series of security checkpoints in downtown Washington on Jan. 17. Kelly Kimball for Foreign Policy ...
More Retrenchment “The United States has wasted $5 trillion fighting its post-9/11 wars. In the same period, the American working classes have...
In a recent scene straight out of a spy thriller, a powerful man, speaking under obvious duress, pleaded with the leaders of his country to comply...
On Dec. 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the centenary of Aligarh Muslim University, a centrally administered university a few...
For U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the high-flying life of public office with perks is coming to an end this week. But congressional...
For anyone hoping for a decisive break from the strategic ambiguity of the Angela Merkel era, the election of Armin Laschet this past weekend to...
The explosion of white supremacist violence displayed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was not an isolated event. Before Donald Trump and the QAnon-...
Six weeks after Saudi operatives brutally killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, the CIA leaked...
In removing U.S. President Donald Trump from their services, Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook have firmly established the principle...
Fukuyama, 68, says his original concept, derived from the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, has often been misunderstood. Fukuyama says he never...
In 2016, Ijeoma Ndukwe, a recent university graduate in southeastern Nigeria, launched an unusual social enterprise: a website where Nigerians...
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to tap a seasoned career diplomat to oversee issues related to the southern U.S. border at the National...
In the autumn of 1912, the white residents of Forsyth County, Georgia, expelled its Black community. The trigger, or the excuse, was the killing of...
Many commentators have asked when the United States will produce another diplomatic genius like Henry Kissinger or Zbigniew Brzezinski. But Heather...
In a world defined by scarcity, there will always be a bountiful harvest of bad predictions about the future. This is true for both foreign policy...
To mark the occasion of Foreign Policy’s 50th birthday, FP’s Jonathan Tepperman sat down recently with Fareed Zakaria—the author, CNN host, and...
Noma Bar illustration for Foreign Policy When they take office in January, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have...
The author’s essay in the Winter 1970-71 inaugural issue of Foreign Policy. When Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel, the founders of...
In U.S. foreign policy, it isn’t always easy to suss out good ideas from bad. Some bad ideas masquerade as neutral fact, only to be exposed later...
One of the most successful U.S. foreign policies of the last 50 years may well have been containment, which the United States used from 1947 until...
December 1970 must have seemed an inauspicious moment to launch a new magazine on international affairs. The fighting in Vietnam ground on, even...
Fifty years ago, in the first issue of Foreign Policy, a who’s who of who was and would be graced the pages of a neatly conceived journal. Imagined...
Isolationism was the default position from the founding era to 1941. In 1796, President George Washington set the young nation on a clear course:...
Despite the immense potential of U.S.-Africa relations, China has been more engaged with the continent and in several ways is now ahead of the...
As he takes a fresh look at Washington’s China strategy, President-elect Joe Biden faces hard choices. China has become a powerful challenger to...
If 2020 confirmed one thing, it was the centrality of the dollar to the global economy. U.S. hegemony may already have passed us in a political and...
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign-policy advisors have been eager to convey that “America is back” and ready to resume leadership of...
Half a century ago, the legion of foreign correspondents who would inspire a generation of successors arrived in Saigon to report on a complicated...
A shifting global order as U.S. dominance erodes. Americans tired of foreign entanglements while facing social and racial discord at home. An...
In a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agenda on Tuesday, India’s Supreme Court suspended the implementation of the controversial...
Watching the storming of the Capitol last week, many progressive critics of American foreign policy concluded that the country’s chickens were...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, rescheduled for this July and August but still keeping the 2020 name, will be a landmark event that...
Outgoing President Donald Trump’s latest offense to American democracy—inciting riots that sacked the U.S. Capitol—puts in stark relief his...
More than $550 billion of dirty money is laundered each year in the United States and European Union, the world’s two largest economies. The good...
The world will require 50 percent more energy in 2050 than we produce today, and much of that growth will come from renewables and clean energy...
At least one foreign leader still believes outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s desperate claims that the election was rigged. Brazilian...
It’s known as Bloody Thursday. As with last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol, it was sparked by a last-ditch attempt to subvert an election,...
The digital insurrection finally happened. Last week, Twitter blocked @realDonaldTrump for life. Meanwhile, Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg wrote,...