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An illustration shows the lopped off lower half of the globe with a diverse group of people holding it up from below for a story about the term "the global south."

Is There Such Thing as a Global South?

The category is emotionally powerful but fundamentally flawed.

Analysis
C. Raja Mohan
Then-Secretary of State John Kerry talks with China’s special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, during the COP21 climate change summit in Le Bourget, north of Paris.
Then-Secretary of State John Kerry talks with China’s special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, during the COP21 climate change summit in Le Bourget, north of Paris.

The Climate Envoys Who Could

John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua have forged a close working relationship as the superpowers they represent have drifted apart.

Profile
Lili Pike
A globe with blocks and chunks missing from it sits atop the shoulders of a person looking into a dystopian horizon.
A globe with blocks and chunks missing from it sits atop the shoulders of a person looking into a dystopian horizon.

The Global Credibility Gap

No one power or group can uphold the international order anymore—and that means much more geopolitical uncertainty ahead.

Essay
Jared Cohen, Ian Bremmer
A Palestinian is seen from behind as they look outside through a large broken window. Some shards of fractured glass remain in the frame, but the rest of the opening reveals dark smoke billowing from a dense street of buildings in Gaza City. The sky is otherwise light but hazy.
A Palestinian is seen from behind as they look outside through a large broken window. Some shards of fractured glass remain in the frame, but the rest of the opening reveals dark smoke billowing from a dense street of buildings in Gaza City. The sky is otherwise light but hazy.

How Will This War End? How Can the Next One be Prevented?

FP asks experts two questions about the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

Roundup
Zaha Hassan, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Omar M. Dajani, Diana Buttu, Peter R. Mansoor, Daniel Levy, Ehud Olmert, Eugene Kontorovich, Elliott Abrams

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Asia & the Pacific

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the crowd as he stands in a float during a campaign event. Modi wears a black vest with a scarf and hat in the orange-and-green colors of the Indian flag. The float is also decorated with orange flowers and photos of Modi, and he is flanked by security officers and other members of his party.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the crowd as he stands in a float during a campaign event. Modi wears a black vest with a scarf and hat in the orange-and-green colors of the Indian flag. The float is also decorated with orange flowers and photos of Modi, and he is flanked by security officers and other members of his party.

India’s BJP Scores as National Elections Loom
South Asia Brief
Michael Kugelman

America’s Indo-Pacific Alliances Are Astonishingly Strong

The Taliban’s Enemies Can’t Agree on Anything

How Women Are Reconciling Feminism With Faith

China

A driver charges his electric vehicle at a charging station in Shenzhen, southern Guangdong province, China.
A driver charges his electric vehicle at a charging station in Shenzhen, southern Guangdong province, China.

China Hawks Are Putting the Green Transition at Risk
Argument
Kevin Brunelli, Tom Moerenhout

Chinese Shadow Bank Can’t Pay Up

U.S. Engagement With China in 3 Charts

Why Xi Thinks He Got the Better of Biden

Middle East & Africa

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Mothers sit in a row with their babies and young children inside a large tent illuminated with string lights. One of the women sitting in the foreground has a wide smile as she looks down at the baby she cradles in her arms.

New Lifesaving Malaria Vaccines Need to Be Available Now
Argument
Zacharia Kafuko

Sahel Military Governments Seek Confederation

Is Biden Ignoring Iran’s Sanctions Evasion?

What to Know as COP28 Begins

Europe

Kerch Bridge on fire
Kerch Bridge on fire

The Shortest Path to Victory in Ukraine Goes Through Crimea
Argument
Luke Coffey, Peter Rough

How an Army of Drones Changed the Battlefield in Ukraine

It’s Time to Reconsider Turkey’s NATO Membership

Here’s How Labour Can ‘Stop the Boats’

Americas

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks at an event on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Week in San Francisco, California.

Commerce Needs Cash to Curb China’s Chips
Report
Robbie Gramer, Rishi Iyengar

The Mercosur-EU Trade Deal Fails to Launch

Why Is Venezuela Threatening a Land-Grab War in Latin America?

Corporations Are Juicy Targets for Foreign Disinformation

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US President Joe Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
US President Joe Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.

Rashid Khalidi: Biden Deserves an “F” on the Middle East
Insider
Ravi Agrawal
President-elect Javier Milei laughs with lawmakers at the National Congress for the official announcement of the final vote count on Nov. 29 in Buenos Aires.
President-elect Javier Milei laughs with lawmakers at the National Congress for the official announcement of the final vote count on Nov. 29 in Buenos Aires.

What Milei’s Dollarization Plan Would Mean for Argentina’s Economy
Insider
Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Smoke billows from multiple pipes against a hazy sky at a large steel plant in China.
Smoke billows from multiple pipes against a hazy sky at a large steel plant in China.

Will the World’s Biggest Emitters Finally Play Nice at COP28?
Insider
Ravi Agrawal

In the Magazine

Current Issue: Fall 2023 Archives
The cover of Foreign Policy's fall 2023 print magazine shows a jack made up of joined hands lifting up the world. Cover text reads: The Alliances That Matter Now: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done."
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An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo.

A New Multilateralism

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

Essay
Gordon Brown

NATO’s Remarkable Revival

But the bloc’s future could look very different from its past.

Analysis
Jo Inge Bekkevold

The G-7 Becomes a Power Player
Analysis
G. John Ikenberry

The Nimble New Minilaterals
Analysis
C. Raja Mohan

The China-Russia Axis Takes Shape
Analysis
Bonny Lin

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Weekend Reads

Joaquin Phoenix (center) stars in the film "Napoleon."
Joaquin Phoenix (center) stars in the film "Napoleon."

What Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ Gets Wrong About War

The film’s ideas have poisoned military thinking for centuries.

Review
Franz-Stefan Gady
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An illustration depicting a partially redacted introduction of the U.S. Constitution, with the red lines covering the redacted words forming an American flag next to a field of blue stars positioned before the first lines.

Does Democracy Really Die in Darkness?
Review
Bronwen Everill
John Ackah Blay-Miezah smokes a cigar in the London office of the Oman Ghana Trust Fund in the 1980s.
John Ackah Blay-Miezah smokes a cigar in the London office of the Oman Ghana Trust Fund in the 1980s.

The Man Who Conned the World
Excerpt
Yepoka Yeebo
A U.S. soldier sets fire to a building during the My Lai massacre
A U.S. soldier sets fire to a building during the My Lai massacre

Confusion and Ambition Caused the My Lai Atrocities
Excerpt
Marshall Poe
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FP Live: The Ask-Me-Anything Edition

FP Live host Ravi Agrawal regularly questions policymakers and world leaders about global affairs. Ahead of this holiday season, it’s your turn to ask Ravi the questions.

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Children are hooked up to IV drips on the stairs at a children's hospital in Beijing.

Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak

Authorities are covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.

Argument
Annie Sparrow
Henry Kissinger during an interview in Washington in August 1980.
Henry Kissinger during an interview in Washington in August 1980.

Henry Kissinger, Colossus on the World Stage

The late statesman was a master of realpolitik—whom some regarded as a war criminal.

Obituary
Michael Hirsh
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A Ukrainian soldier in helmet and fatigues holds a cell phone and looks up at the night sky as an explosion lights up the horizon behind him.

The West’s False Choice in Ukraine

The crossroads is not between war and compromise, but between victory and defeat.

Argument
Nona Mikhelidze, Nathalie Tocci
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Illustrated portraits of Reps. MIke Gallagher, right, and Raja Krishnamoorthi

The Masterminds

Washington wants to get tough on China, and the leaders of the House China Committee are in the driver’s seat.

Interview
Robbie Gramer

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A sticker featuring U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and partially reading "asylum" is seen on the pavement of a Berlin street.

The Song and Dance of American Secrecy

Espionage law hasn’t changed much since William Howard Taft—yet recent presidents have wielded it as a cudgel more than ever before.

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The book cover of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett

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Book covers for Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis and Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie.

Why Did America’s Elite Keep Falling for Crypto Frauds?
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Book cover for Material World by Ed Conway

Living in a Material World
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Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 688 pp., $35, September 2023

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Zachary Karabell
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The cover of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash.

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Jan-Werner Müller

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An illustrations shows overlapping arrows and pie charts atop an image of container ships in an ocean seen from above.

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Most big economies are inextricably tied to both Washington and Beijing.

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Rafet Kurse, a former fisherman, stands next to an abandoned boat on the former shores of Marmara Lake. A dry, dusty landscape stretches into the distance behind him.

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Turkish President Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure projects are enriching construction companies while reshaping his country’s waterscape for the worse.

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