Washington wants to reclaim climate leadership and get other major countries to ramp up ambitions.

The country is imploding under America’s watch.

Boris Johnson shouldn’t shy away from global leadership and the morally driven approach that protected Kosovars and Iraqi Kurds in the 1990s.

Rocky Brazil-U.S. diplomacy on protecting the rainforest approaches a pivotal moment.

Biden’s withdrawal announcement is meant to end a 20-year war, but Washington has been dragged back into conflicts before.

Beijing’s own words and actions highlight the intent to end the Uyghurs as a people.

In Eastern European countries that have accepted the Russian vaccine, destabilization has followed.

The Biden administration takes a novel, broad-brush approach to Russia’s nefarious activity.

In its new defense and foreign-policy posture, the country is no longer trying to punch above its weight.

Making nice after an alleged coup attempt obscures serious challenges, including water scarcity, a refugee crisis, and unhelpful neighbors.

Chief negotiator Robert Malley begins to forge a compromise with both Iran and hard-liners at home.

Plans for a global pandemic treaty don’t solve the problem of China’s refusal to cooperate.

Local community projects are already powering parts of London and could pave the way for a green transition.

This week’s attack on an Iranian enrichment facility has improved the country’s negotiating position.

Syrian government is using aid deliveries as a weapon, State Department reports.

The country’s rural Dalits are already exploited—and know it can get worse.

There’s much more evidence of the monarch’s poor governance than a foreign conspiracy against him.

Muslims need their own nationwide party, he believes. And he’s going to build it.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.

Trump gutted the programs that helped aid and place migrants. Now Biden is left with a mess.

After making the right call on withdrawal, the U.S. president better get ready for second-guessing.

Most solar panels come from China, and using them to fuel a clean energy transition risks reliance on Uyghur slave labor.

China is governed by a totalitarian regime. Why is that so hard to say?

It’s been a difficult and dizzying few months for Turkey—which is just the way the president likes it.

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?

The new administration can learn from South Africa’s experience with transitional justice.

Other countries offer good lessons for acknowledging and redressing past wrongs.