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How the Greenland standoff pushed Europe to prep for war with the U.S.

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Trump’s support for Lebanon is worth cheering

21.07.2026 6

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Thank You, Mr. President, for Fact-Checking Yourself

Thank You, Mr. President, for Fact-Checking Yourself

When President Donald Trump delivered his television tirade Thursday night about “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” and a...

20.07.2026 10

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Thank you, Mr. President, for fact-checking yourself

19.07.2026 8

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Trump Pushed the Reset Button. This is ‘Iran Fiasco 2.0.’

Trump Pushed the Reset Button. This is ‘Iran Fiasco 2.0.’

Three words of advice for President Donald Trump as he tries to extricate himself from the mess of the Iran war: Just stop talking. Let America’s...

15.07.2026 10

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Trump pushed the reset button. This is ‘Iran Fiasco 2.0.’

15.07.2026 10

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Europe Braces for a Russian Provocation

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07.07.2026 10

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Europe braces for a Russian provocation

06.07.2026 20

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A toast to America at 250, glowing and decaying all at once

02.07.2026 20

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A Toast to America at 250, Glowing and Decaying All at Once

Welcome to FP Free Week. To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, our entire site is completely unlocked this week only. Enjoy the article. “Shine,...

02.07.2026 20

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Israel and Iran Should Both Leave Lebanon

In 1983, I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine with the comically naive title, “How to Rebuild Lebanon.” The task seemed obvious: The...

25.06.2026 20

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A punching bag. ‘A graveyard.’ A new temptation for Trump.

25.06.2026 50

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Here’s how to tell if Trump’s threadbare Iran deal is holding

18.06.2026 20

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How the Trump Administration Built Its Exit Ramp in Iran

Listening to U.S. and Arab negotiators recount inside details of their long, zigzag bargaining with Iran over the past five months, I have the sense...

16.06.2026 10

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How the Trump administration built its exit ramp in Iran

15.06.2026 20

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Why Trump and Putin can’t escape their mistakes

11.06.2026 10

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Trump and Putin’s Forever Wars

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11.06.2026 20

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What Trump’s Spy Chief Pick Signals

“The Acting Director of Political Retribution.” Sadly, that might be the best shorthand title for the official chosen Tuesday to oversee the...

04.06.2026 20

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Loyal, vengeful and with no experience? Meet your new spy chief.

04.06.2026 20

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Trump’s Iran exit ramp is a long shot. He doesn’t have a better option.

24.05.2026 20

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The Trump-Xi narrative isn’t true. America keeps falling uphill.

21.05.2026 60

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Harvard has a defense-tech incubator. Pete Hegseth should visit it.

14.05.2026 30

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An American industrial revolution is brewing. I saw it in Pittsburgh.

07.05.2026 70

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Ukraine Wants to Teach Europe What It Learned

Foreign & Public Diplomacy KYIV—Strange as it sounds, it’s uplifting to visit Ukraine these days. This is a place where the good guys are...

28.04.2026 30

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Ukraine took Russia’s best punch. It wants to teach Europe what it learned.

28.04.2026 60

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Both Sides Want a Deal. Both Keep Acting As if They Don’t.

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Think of all the sparring ahead of the second round of U.S.-Iran negotiations as the World Series of Brinkmanship. The...

21.04.2026 20

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I’ve never seen a negotiation like this one

21.04.2026 30

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What Would Trump Do If Putin Struck Europe?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, always paranoid about enemies, may be feeling cornered this spring. His army is at a standstill in Ukraine, despite...

17.04.2026 30

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This is the scariest question about Putin — and Trump

16.04.2026 60

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What Really Happened in Islamabad—and What Trump Is Trying Now

Foreign & Public Diplomacy “There you have it, the meeting went well,” declared the Great Narrator a few hours after Saturday’s marathon,...

13.04.2026 40

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What really happened in Islamabad — and what Trump is trying now

12.04.2026 50

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The Iran War’s Exit Ramp Has Become a Diplomatic Maze

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Diplomats like ambiguity. But as President Donald Trump’s emissaries try to craft a permanent ceasefire agreement in...

09.04.2026 40

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The Iran war’s exit ramp has become a diplomatic maze

08.04.2026 30

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The Iran War is a Hostage Crisis

“America held hostage!” That grim nightly message from ABC’s Ted Koppel transfixed the nation during the Iran hostage crisis nearly five decades...

01.04.2026 20

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The Iran war is a hostage crisis

01.04.2026 40

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Trump isn’t hiding his election power grab. He’s bragging about it.

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In Their Game of Chicken, Trump and Iran Tap the Brakes at Last

When bargaining about war and peace, the strategist Thomas Schelling wrote, you’re more likely to win concessions “if you get a reputation for...

24.03.2026 40

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In their game of chicken, Trump and Iran tap the brakes at last

23.03.2026 40

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The Iran War Is Metastasizing. Trump Needs an Endgame.

Nobody else will clean up the mess in Iran. That means U.S. President Donald Trump needs to finish the war he started so impulsively—by setting a...

19.03.2026 40

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The Iran war is metastasizing. Trump needs an endgame.

19.03.2026 60

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Iran’s Islamic Republic 2.0 is coming — and it won’t be pretty

12.03.2026 40

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Iran’s Islamic Republic 2.0 is Coming—and It Won’t Be Pretty

We’ve lifted the paywall. Foreign Policy’s coverage of the Iran war is free to read for a limited time. Maybe the answer to the gut question “So...

12.03.2026 70

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Israeli Defense Officials Start to Ask How the Iran War Ends

A few senior officials in Israel are starting to voice concern about the escalating, open-ended attack on Iran—and suggesting possible exit ramps...

09.03.2026 400

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Israeli officials are growing concerned

09.03.2026 70

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The Dangerous Rise of Decapitation Warfare

President Donald Trump said about the airstrike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a week ago: “I got him before he got me.” Iran had...

06.03.2026 40

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The dangerous rise of decapitation warfare

05.03.2026 50

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Trump’s Iran Operation Is the Opposite of a ‘One and Done’

For more than 45 years, U.S. presidents have wanted to destroy the radical, anti-American regime in Tehran. They always concluded that the risks of...

01.03.2026 50

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One and done? Trump’s Iran operation is unfortunately the opposite.

28.02.2026 50

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The Shadow War That’s Strengthening Europe

After four years of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved a double failure: He hasn’t conquered Ukraine, or even its eastern Donbas...

27.02.2026 50

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The shadow war that’s strengthening Europe

26.02.2026 50

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