FP asked leading global thinkers which foreign-policy issues have been missing from the campaign. Kori Schake writes about the lowest-hanging fruit in U.S. policy.

Regardless of who wins next week, Afghans feel neither Trump nor Biden will do anything for Afghanistan—they just hope the next president completes the U.S. withdrawal.

Trump’s touted his rallies with India’s leader, but the Indian American community is leaning left—and nowhere like in Texas.

Young Americans will be voting in huge numbers. They are also the most globally minded generation since the 1970s.

Trump versus Biden is not just about the United States. The whole world is watching the Nov. 3 election to see how U.S. foreign policy may change in the coming months.

Niche foreign-policy issues could become make-or-break affairs for battleground races, from Cuba for Florida Latinos to the treatment of Somali refugees in Minnesota.

Daily takes by leading global thinkers on the most important foreign-policy issues not being talked about during the campaign.

Columnist James Traub offers an inside preview of the foreign-policy vision, and instincts, of the potential 46th president of the United States.

After an obscure—and confusing—term burst into politics, the country’s far-right may be forever changed.

But the structure of its comeback may create problems at home—and abroad.

Fear of Beijing’s technological prowess is driving deep policy shifts.

Americans expect election-related instability in faraway countries. Here’s how it could happen at home.

With the president on the campaign trail, administration officials are crossing the region to counter China’s rise—moves that a Biden administration might embrace.

Here are all the reasons why the country and its people matter.

While France and the United States turn a blind eye, Alassane Ouattara is rolling back the region’s democratic gains and legitimizing authoritarian rule.

From the Czech Republic and Germany to the Indian state of Kerala, governments that dealt decisively with the first wave of the coronavirus are drowning in the second wave.

As Amy Coney Barrett wrote herself, religious convictions are real and influential on judges.

Steve Bannon’s billionaire funder claims to be a foe of the Chinese Communist Party, but his targets are fellow exiles.

A U.S. Embassy and defense agreements are meant to keep the island nation from falling into Beijing’s orbit.

Demonstrations against police brutality—organized on social media and powered by artists and musicians—have shown Nigeria’s youth that they have the power to change society.

The president has had a handful of successes—but never anything approaching a strategy.

After a year of chaos, a familiar face is returning to the top of a country that desperately wants change.

Trump's foreign-policy instincts might be more sound—but he has forfeited the chance to lead.

Bangladesh, once far behind, just surpassed India in GDP per capita. All the more reason for Modi to focus on the right reforms.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

International relations theorists once explored racism. What has the field lost by giving that up?

How the physical environment affects our experience of difference.

Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that.

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Seven predictions for how tourism will change.

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Ten leading global thinkers on government after the pandemic.