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What Israel’s Election Won’t Change

What Israel’s Election Won’t Change

When Israelis go to the polls on October 27, much of the world will be rooting for the defeat of the country’s longtime prime minister, Benjamin...

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Foreign Affairs

Aluf Benn

The New Energy Stalemate in Ukraine

The New Energy Stalemate in Ukraine

In the days since U.S. President Donald Trump’s highly public falling out with Ukraine and growing rapprochement with Russia, Kyiv’s prospects...

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Foreign Affairs

Tatiana Mitrova And Sergey Vakulenko

The Fog of Tech

The Fog of Tech

Why the Future of War Can’t Escape the Past

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Foreign Affairs

Mara Karlin

The China Price

The China Price

In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of worried European...

22.10.2026 10

Foreign Affairs

Zongyuan Zoe Liu

Empires of AI

Empires of AI

In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire. Their...

22.10.2026 40

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Niall Ferguson

Brazil’s Economic Impasse

Brazil’s Economic Impasse

On October 5, the day after the first round of Brazil’s general elections, the country’s financial markets were euphoric. Brazil is struggling...

22.10.2026 10

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Monica de Bolle

A Less-Is-More Strategy for America

A Less-Is-More Strategy for America

On October 8, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group returned to the United States after 320 days at sea. The deployment—a near...

22.10.2026 10

Foreign Affairs

Barry R. Posen

The Chokepoint Trap

The Chokepoint Trap

How the Search for Economic Security Will End in Geopolitical Calamity

22.10.2026 10

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Henry Farrell

The Limits of American Power

The Limits of American Power

The war in Iran is far from the first time that U.S. policymakers have failed to appreciate the limits of American power. But the Trump...

21.10.2026 30

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William H. McRaven

How Russia Sees the World Now

How Russia Sees the World Now

In 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s strategic thinking was shaped around several core ideas. It viewed the...

21.10.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Dmitry Adamsky

Who Needs the Bomb?

Who Needs the Bomb?

Eric S. Edelman and Franklin C. Miller Reports of the death of nuclear deterrence are greatly exaggerated. Obituaries for nuclear weapons simply...

21.10.2026 20

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Eric S. Edelman And Franklin C. Miller; Yonatan Touval; Janice Gross Stein; Rose Gottemoeller

The Everything Crisis

The Everything Crisis

Nobody is more convinced of the decline of liberalism than liberals themselves. In Western countries, the past decade has seen a veritable avalanche...

19.10.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Europe’s Credibility Gap

Europe’s Credibility Gap

The second Trump administration’s National Security Strategy declared that “the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like...

19.10.2026 30

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Claas Mertens And Ngaire Woods

A Better “America First”

A Better “America First”

What Trump Gets Right—and Wrong—About Foreign Policy

19.10.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Charles Kupchan

The Nuclear Deal That Could Save NATO

The Nuclear Deal That Could Save NATO

At a meeting earlier this year, top foreign ministry officials from several European countries were asked who among them still believed that the...

16.10.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Ivo H. Daalder

The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War

The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War

How Battlefield Cooperation Is Binding Together America’s Adversaries

16.10.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Andrea Kendall-Taylor And Richard Fontaine

A Democratic Reckoning in India

A Democratic Reckoning in India

The Battle on the Streets Over the Foundations of the State

15.10.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The Middle East’s Quiet Liberal Revolution

The Middle East’s Quiet Liberal Revolution

The idea that the Middle East is becoming more liberal may sound counterintuitive. Nearly 50 years ago, a revolution in Iran dismantled the...

15.10.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Mansoor Moaddel

India’s Democratic Reckoning

India’s Democratic Reckoning

The Battle on the Streets Over the Foundations of the State

15.10.2026 10

Foreign Affairs

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

China’s Next Frontier

On the morning of August 19, China’s space industry crossed a major threshold. Shortly after the Chinese aerospace company LandSpace launched a...

14.10.2026 30

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Kathleen Curlee And Sam Bresnick

Ukraine Can Turn Imminent Peril to Its Advantage

How a True “Energy Cease-Fire” Can Curb Putin

14.10.2026 20

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Eric Ciaramella

The Real Lesson of the Iran War

For months, Iran’s resilience in its war with two of the world’s most capable militaries has perplexed many politicians and confounded public...

13.10.2026 40

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Justin Bronk

The Global AI Bust

What Will Survive When the Boom Ends

13.10.2026 100

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Ruchir Sharma

Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race

The fastest track and field athlete is no longer the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. In fact, it is not a person at all: it is the Chinese humanoid...

12.10.2026 70

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Scott Singer And Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi

America Shouldn’t Let Go of the Middle East

Why Disengagement Is Not the Answer

12.10.2026 50

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Philip H. Gordon

Iran’s Theory of Victory

When it comes to Iran, the Trump administration has a decidedly dismal record. It failed to wear down the Islamic Republic with months of intense...

09.10.2026 40

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Narges Bajoghli And Vali Nasr

Trump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical Advantage

The Strategic Costs of Antagonizing Canada and Mexico

09.10.2026 20

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Robert B. Zoellick

The End of Gaza

A year after the Trump administration negotiated an agreement to end the war in Gaza, Palestinians are still waiting for the “day after” to...

08.10.2026 80

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Khaled Elgindy

The Case for Economic Espionage

America Should Spy On Foreign Companies to Help Its Own

08.10.2026 60

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David S. Cohen

The Two Africas

Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of African leaders that the United States would be “shifting from aid to trade.” Washington...

07.10.2026 30

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Jared Cohen

Russia’s Hybrid War Has Entered a Dangerous New Phase

And the West Has Done Far Too Little to Deter It

07.10.2026 30

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Julianne Smith

The New Red Sea Wars

On June 3, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Congress that the fighting that had raged for three years in Sudan was now a “proxy...

06.10.2026 100

Foreign Affairs

Alan Boswell

The Myth of Military Victory

The Dangerous Idea Driving Today’s Wars of Choice

06.10.2026 250

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Stephen Biddle

The Triumph of Tech-Fueled Propaganda

In April and May, hundreds of users of the social media platform Bluesky discovered that their accounts had been hijacked and used to spread content...

05.10.2026 20

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Renée Diresta And Josh A. Goldstein

China’s Long Twilight

Demographic Decline, Political Paralysis, and the Fate of Great Powers

05.10.2026 100

Foreign Affairs

Carl Minzner

Brazil’s Election Won’t Fix What’s Broken

The Brazilian presidential election, which kicks off with a first round of voting on October 4, gives citizens a choice between radically different...

02.10.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Matias Spektor

Brazil’s Election Won’t Fix What’s Broken

The Brazilian presidential election, which kicks off with a first round of voting on October 4, gives citizens a choice between radically different...

02.10.2026 30

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Matias Spektor

Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution

Why a New Majority—Even in Gaza—Supports Compromise With Israel

02.10.2026 100

Foreign Affairs

Michael Robbins

The AI Autocrat

Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...

01.10.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Seva Gunitsky And Bruce Schneier

The AI Autocrat

Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of...

30.09.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

Seva Gunitsky And Bruce Schneier

Why Iran Escalates

Tehran’s Strategy to Drive America Out of the Middle East

30.09.2026 70

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Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv Needs to Survive

30.09.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Dmytro Kuleba

The New Forever War

When will the war in Iran end? American officials claim that the answer is soon. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the [November]...

29.09.2026 90

Foreign Affairs

Ali Vaez

The Scramble for the Open Seas

Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside...

29.09.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Michael Albertus

The Two Shocks Upending Latin America

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, voters worried about rising crime have elected populists who promise to impose order and security in their...

29.09.2026 100

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Dan Restrepo And Ricardo Zuniga

Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine

What Kyiv Needs to Survive

29.09.2026 30

Foreign Affairs

Dmytro Kuleba

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War

28.09.2026 70

Foreign Affairs

Dan Driscoll

Japan Is Giving the United States a Chance in Asia

Japan, a country constitutionally bound to pacifism since World War II, is investing in its defense and contributing to regional security in ways that...

27.09.2026 150

Foreign Affairs

David Sacks And Nick Snyder

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War

27.09.2026 150

Foreign Affairs

Dan Driscoll

How Iran Changed War

When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and...

25.09.2026 50

Foreign Affairs

Michael C. Horowitz