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When the world was still a global village, a small European country could reasonably choose to be unaligned or neutral. It could steer its course as...
While many Iranians took to the streets to celebrate the end of the short but dramatic 12-day war with Israel in June, Abdullatif, 23, couldn’t...
Ongoing reports and analysis It’s not quite the “90 deals in 90 days” that Trump administration officials claimed were possible back in April,...
Brazilians are bracing for impact. Unless a last-minute negotiated solution is reached, the 50 percent tariff imposed by the administration of U.S....
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. tariff threats against India, a massive earthquake in the Indo-Pacific, and Thailand’s and...
On July 15, five of China’s most prominent private-sector entrepreneurs sat shoulder to shoulder at a press conference in Beijing hosted by the...
In a carefully choreographed ceremony on July 11 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 30 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbolically burned their...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Environmentalists protest a resort project in the Seychelles, Sudan’s Rapid...
It is rare that a world leader’s views on a major international conflict have evolved so much, so publicly, and in such a short space of time. In...
Whether you like it or not, U.S. President Donald Trump has been the most important figure in the country’s political scene for nearly a decade. By...
Following dismal results in Japan’s parliamentary elections, there is a broad consensus among Japanese lawmakers and political analysts that Prime...
The two-day meeting that began Monday between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Stockholm will be key to...
Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Ukraine’s wartime economy is defined by the massive mobilization of resources for the...
MORE ON THIS TOPIC Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the future of Palestinian statehood, deadly flooding across China, and...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration blocks Taiwan’s president from transiting through the...
For years, politicians, diplomats, analysts, and journalists working on the Middle East worried that a war between Iran and Israel could quickly...
Over the weekend, the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia agreed to an unconditional cease-fire that took effect on July 28. The deal will hopefully...
In the weeks following the Israeli strikes on Iran in June, something unusual happened. For decades, Iranians had been among the most pro-American...
By any historical measure, India is reluctant to bow to coercion. Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, championed the cause of...
MORE ON THIS TOPIC Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at evidence of mass starvation in Gaza, Thailand striking a cease-fire deal...
Only six months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has already wrought unprecedented chaos upon the government and society of the...
Ongoing reports and analysis President Donald Trump has spent two weeks struggling to dig himself out of the scandal that’s become known as the “...
Since its inception in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—the strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United...