|
Foreign Policy
|
Get audio access with any FP subscription. Subscribe Now ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN Imagine China launching an invasion of Taiwan, and the...


Get audio access with any FP subscription. Subscribe Now ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN It is just possible that posterity will mark Oct. 13...


In a new PBS biography of Henry Kissinger, viewers learn how growing up in an observant Jewish household in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s...

Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. The United States on Saturday said it had “credible reports” that Hamas...


Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Bolivia elects a new president, Uruguay legalizes euthanasia, and...

For almost as long as there have been nuclear weapons, there have been movies agonizing about the tortured class of professionals tasked with...


On Sept. 23, days before Durga Puja, the biggest annual carnival for Bengalis, the city of Kolkata experienced a shocking cloudburst. In just a few...


The current trade confrontation between the United States and China may look like a repeat of the episode from earlier this year: Washington has...

An hour away by car from the busy Indian port city of Visakhapatnam, the countryside is changing rapidly. Vast stretches of what once were paddy...


Exactly 80 years ago, on Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations Charter entered into force. But the U.N. is limping through its birthday in a state of...


Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump’s domestic policies have been painful for the United States’ workers. His foreign policy...


Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday levied sanctions against Russia’s two...


Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Afghanistan and Pakistan reach a fragile cease-fire after a deadly spate of...


Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating his offensive against Europe. After...


As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis jostled for space on a recently paved street on...


Two decades of leftist rule in Bolivia came to an end on Oct. 19, when voters chose Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, to be the country’s next...


MORE ON THIS TOPIC Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. U.S. President Donald Trump’s flurry of diplomacy continues, with the White...


Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at European and U.S. sanctions on...

Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has been typified by unorthodox moves that have stretched the limits of...


Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic After refusing to pressure Russia for nine months, U.S. President Donald Trump has...


It’s hard to say which is a bigger achievement for Islamabad’s diplomacy: U.S. President Donald Trump’s shift toward Pakistan or the buzz over the...


This summer, I stood at the Thailand-Myanmar border, looking across the Moei River, at a new city in Myanmar recently constructed on land that just...

When Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, met with his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister S....


U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently talked about taking over Greenland and Canada, but it’s unclear if he was actually serious about it....


When the head of the largest military alliance in the world calls the president of the United States “daddy,” you’d be forgiven for thinking...

The skies over Eastern Europe have become a testing ground for NATO’s resolve. In September 2025, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated...


Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a surprise meeting between NATO...


Ongoing reports and analysis Supporters and allies of U.S. President Donald Trump are loudly reminding him that the first “A” in MAGA stands for...


Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: South Africa’s government endorses a new energy policy, Nigerians protest the...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni marks three years in office this week. She finds herself in enviable political shape, with the country’s...


Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Japan’s first female prime minister, U.S. efforts to bolster the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal,...


For more than a year, another catastrophic war between Eritrea and Ethiopia has appeared imminent. Seasoned experts and some political figures have...


Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces a purge of military leaders, the Chinese Communist Party’s...


Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: ASEAN’s summit makes Kuala Lumpur a geopolitical hub, Laos considers...


Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader, Sanae Takaichi, has become the country’s first female prime minister, partnering with a small...

You’ve seen the headlines: Genocide. Famine. War. Climate catastrophe. Inflation. The far right ascendant. Democracy in decline. For women in...


Ongoing reports and analysis It’s been more than eight months since U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world by halting virtually all U.S....


The death of Raila Odinga, Kenya’s former prime minister and most enduring opposition figure, closes a defining chapter in the nation’s political...

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting...


Ongoing reports and analysis Relations between the Trump administration and Colombia took their fourth turn for the worse this year over the...


Ongoing reports and analysis Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became the latest leader to use critical minerals as a fast-track into U.S....


MORE ON THIS TOPIC NAPLES, Italy—During the final match for the scudetto, Italy’s most coveted soccer prize, in May, supporters of SSC Napoli...


Speeches by heads of government are seldom worth a read, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address at the Council on Foreign Relations on...

Since 1997, the U.S. intelligence community has published the unclassified “Global Trends” report every four years to assess different scenarios...


U.S.-Pakistan relations are undergoing a significant shift in President Donald Trump’s second term, which seemed to begin in the spring—shortly...


Russia’s intensifying incursions into European airspace are often described as acts of hybrid war. The implication is that while conventional war...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 posed a blunt test for Washington—one that many said it failed. For example, Michael...


Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the White House’s new critical minerals partner, the first major test of the Israel-Hamas...


There has been an eerie similarity to recent developments in South Asia. The Generation Z-led protest movement that ousted Prime Minister K.P....


U.S. President Donald Trump wants to lay off federal workers during the government shutdown. In contrast to previous presidents who have furloughed...
