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Russia’s War Is Also Cognitive

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Nataliya Bugayova

Former Colombian Leader Is Convicted of Bribery

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Catherine Osborn

Could Images of the Famine in Gaza Change Israeli Public Opinion?

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David E. Rosenberg

Nigeria’s Refusal to Cave to Trump Signals a Shift in U.S.-Africa Relations

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Olajumoke Ayandele

The Two-State Solution Gets a Lifeline

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John Haltiwanger

Trump Issues Mixed Messaging on U.S. Israel Policy

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Alexandra Sharp

Tehran’s Wake‑Up Call for Beijing

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Grant Rumley

Small Countries Are Seeking Asylum in Europe

Small Countries Are Seeking Asylum in Europe

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...

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Caroline De Gruyter

Iran’s Mass Deportations Are Fueling Regional Instability

Iran’s Mass Deportations Are Fueling Regional Instability

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...

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Jagoda Grondecka

The Trump Trade Tracker

The Trump Trade Tracker

Ongoing reports and analysis It’s not quite the “90 deals in 90 days” that Trump administration officials claimed were possible back in April,...

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Rishi Iyengar

Why Brazil Might End Up With Higher Tariffs Than Any Other Nation

Why Brazil Might End Up With Higher Tariffs Than Any Other Nation

Brazilians are bracing for impact. Unless a last-minute negotiated solution is reached, the 50 percent tariff imposed by the administration of U.S....

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Oliver Stuenkel

Trump Announces a 25 Percent Tariff on India

Trump Announces a 25 Percent Tariff on India

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...

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Alexandra Sharp

China Has Picked Its New Model Entrepreneurs

China Has Picked Its New Model Entrepreneurs

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...

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Lizzi C. Lee

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?

In a carefully choreographed ceremony on July 11 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 30 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbolically burned their...

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Sinem Adar

Can the Vulnerable Seychelles Sustain Another Resort?

Can the Vulnerable Seychelles Sustain Another Resort?

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Environmentalists protest a resort project in the Seychelles, Sudan’s Rapid...

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Nosmot Gbadamosi

How Trump’s Pivot on Ukraine Might Impact the War

How Trump’s Pivot on Ukraine Might Impact the War

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...

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Ravi Agrawal

Trump’s Missed Opportunities Are Piling Up

Trump’s Missed Opportunities Are Piling Up

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...

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Stephen M. Walt

Japan’s LDP Is Teetering as Far-Right Challenger Emerges

Following dismal results in Japan’s parliamentary elections, there is a broad consensus among Japanese lawmakers and political analysts that Prime...

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William Sposato

Is This the Start of a U.S.-China Friendship?

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...

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Graham Allison

Ukraine’s Cronyism Crisis Offers a Warning to the ‘De-Risking’ World

Ukraine’s Cronyism Crisis Offers a Warning to the ‘De-Risking’ World

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Ukraine’s wartime economy is defined by the massive mobilization of resources for the...

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Luke Cooper

U.K. to Recognize Palestinian State Unless Israel Agrees to Cease-Fire

U.K. to Recognize Palestinian State Unless Israel Agrees to Cease-Fire

MORE ON THIS TOPIC Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the future of Palestinian statehood, deadly flooding across China, and...

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Alexandra Sharp

Trump Snubs the Taiwanese President

Trump Snubs the Taiwanese President

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration blocks Taiwan’s president from transiting through the...

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James Palmer

Cooler Heads Prevail in the Gulf—for Now

Cooler Heads Prevail in the Gulf—for Now

For years, politicians, diplomats, analysts, and journalists working on the Middle East worried that a war between Iran and Israel could quickly...

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Mina Al-Oraibi

Cambodia and Thailand Have Agreed to a Cease-fire. Now What?

Cambodia and Thailand Have Agreed to a Cease-fire. Now What?

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...

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Derek Grossman

The Generation Iranian Hard-Liners Have Been Waiting for

In the weeks following the Israeli strikes on Iran in June, something unusual happened. For decades, Iranians had been among the most pro-American...

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Narges Bajoghli

Trump Is Pushing India to Submit to China

Trump Is Pushing India to Submit to China

By any historical measure, India is reluctant to bow to coercion. Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, championed the cause of...

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Sushant Singh

Trump Acknowledges Mass Hunger Crisis in Gaza

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...

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Alexandra Sharp

Ukrainians Wonder When Americans Will Hit the Streets

Only six months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has already wrought unprecedented chaos upon the government and society of the...

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Emily Couch

How the ‘Paranoid Style’ Took Over U.S. Politics

How the ‘Paranoid Style’ Took Over U.S. Politics

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 “...

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Julian E. Zelizer

Put the Quad to Work On Energy Security

Put the Quad to Work On Energy Security

Since its inception in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—the strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United...

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Larry W. Schwartz