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Democratic Peace Theory, R.I.P.

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Stephen M. Walt

How Trump Can Avoid ‘Owning’ Gaza

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Will Walldorf

The Countries Courting Trump With Critical Minerals

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Rishi Iyengar

The Lessons of ‘A House of Dynamite’

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Matthew Kroenig

Prosecuting the Powerful

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Seva Gunitsky

How Trump’s White House Renovation Differs from Truman’s

How Trump’s White House Renovation Differs from Truman’s

Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump has angered many Americans who have watched videos of the demolition of the East Wing of...

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Julian E. Zelizer

Trump, Takaichi Seek New Trade, Security Opportunities to Counter China

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Alexandra Sharp

The Trump Trade Tracker

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Rishi Iyengar

Who Is Messing With Airplane GPS Worldwide?

Who Is Messing With Airplane GPS Worldwide?

Someone is interfering with aviation in the Baltic Sea region, jamming and manipulating the GPS signals that allow aircraft (and their pilots) to...

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Elisabeth Braw

For Syrian Refugees, U.S. Aid Cuts Have Been Devastating

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Steven A. Cook

A Bridge Divided

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Jenna Kunze

How to Make AI More Useful

How to Make AI More Useful

The artificial intelligence industry seems poised for a crash. Spending on AI infrastructure is expected to hit $2.8 trillion by 2029, and it is...

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Bhaskar Chakravorti

Why Rare Earths Are About to Cost a Lot More

Why Rare Earths Are About to Cost a Lot More

China’s latest announcement of export controls on rare-earth minerals has reignited familiar concerns in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere...

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Patrick Schröder

Canada Seeks New Trade Partners in Asia After Trump’s Blowup

Canada Seeks New Trade Partners in Asia After Trump’s Blowup

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a shift in Canada’s trade strategy, another party splinter in French budget negotiations, and...

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Alexandra Sharp

Is the U.S. Ready for War With China?

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

24.10.2025 1

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Franz-Stefan Gady

Plush Power

Plush Power

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

24.10.2025 2

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Bobby Ghosh

It’s (Still) Henry Kissinger’s World

It’s (Still) Henry Kissinger’s World

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...

24.10.2025 6

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Julian E. Zelizer

What in the World?

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

24.10.2025 4

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Drew Gorman

Is Bolivia Ready for Paz?

Is Bolivia Ready for Paz?

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

24.10.2025 2

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Catherine Osborn

‘A House of Dynamite’ Isn’t Explosive Enough

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

24.10.2025 4

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Megan Dubois

Even Doomsday Will Divide Us

Even Doomsday Will Divide Us

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...

24.10.2025 1

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Somak Ghoshal

Xi May Have Miscalculated on Rare Earths

Xi May Have Miscalculated on Rare Earths

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

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Alasdair Phillips-Robins

Indian Farmers Struggle as Climate Change Warps Landscape

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...

24.10.2025 4

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James Moules

For Its 80th Birthday, the U.N. Needs More Than a Reset

For Its 80th Birthday, the U.N. Needs More Than a Reset

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...

24.10.2025 4

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Heba Aly

Trump’s Anti-Worker Foreign Policy

Trump’s Anti-Worker Foreign Policy

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

24.10.2025 4

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Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez

U.S. Sanctions Major Russian Energy Companies

U.S. Sanctions Major Russian Energy Companies

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

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Sam Skove

The Deep Roots of Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Violence

The Deep Roots of Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Violence

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...

23.10.2025 4

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Michael Kugelman

How to Fight Putin on the Information Battlefield

How to Fight Putin on the Information Battlefield

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

23.10.2025 2

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Peter Pomerantsev

Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom

Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom

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...

23.10.2025 2

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Jake Bittle

Nobody Is Sure How Bolivia’s New President Will Govern

Nobody Is Sure How Bolivia’s New President Will Govern

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...

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Nick Aspinwall

The Difficult Art of Bibi-Sitting

The Difficult Art of Bibi-Sitting

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...

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John Haltiwanger

The EU, U.S. Hit Russia Where It Hurts

The EU, U.S. Hit Russia Where It Hurts

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...

23.10.2025 2

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Alexandra Sharp

Three Key Questions About Trump’s War Against Drug Boats

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

23.10.2025 4

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John Haltiwanger

Will Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Finally Sway Putin?

Will Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Finally Sway Putin?

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

23.10.2025 2

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Keith Johnson

Pakistan’s Year of Diplomatic Miracles

Pakistan’s Year of Diplomatic Miracles

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...

23.10.2025 2

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Robert A. Manning

China Can’t Keep Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities

China Can’t Keep Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities

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...

23.10.2025 1

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Benedict Rogers

India Warily Welcomes the Taliban

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

23.10.2025 1

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Harsh V. Pant

Why Trump Is a ‘Scarcity President’

Why Trump Is a ‘Scarcity President’

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....

22.10.2025 2

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Ravi Agrawal

The Embarrassing Demotion of Europe

The Embarrassing Demotion of Europe

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...

22.10.2025 2

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John Kampfner