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The funeral of Hezbollah members Ibrahim Sharaf al-Din, Muhammad Hussein Ali Rabah and Hussein Ali Majid in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 26.
The funeral of Hezbollah members Ibrahim Sharaf al-Din, Muhammad Hussein Ali Rabah and Hussein Ali Majid in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 26.

Can Israel Kill Its Way to Victory Over Hezbollah?

The group has been degraded but can still inflict serious harm.

Analysis
Daniel Byman

Charisma and Militancy Powered Nasrallah’s Rise, but He Became One More Corrupt Warlord

The Hezbollah leader’s death will not bring lasting peace for Israel.

Analysis
Thanassis Cambanis

How Beirut Reacted to Nasrallah’s Death

After Hezbollah confirmed its leader had been killed in an Israeli airstrike, all hell broke loose in the streets.

Report
Stefanie Glinski
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An illustration shows a wireframe hand and a full hand with strings tangled between outstretched fingers and a presidential seal snared in the middle.

The Artificial General Intelligence Presidency Is Coming

Generative AI was developed largely without government assistance, but its next phase will require government involvement.

Argument
Ylli Bajraktari
A U.S. flag is displayed in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 16.
A U.S. flag is displayed in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 16.

The Real Lesson of Springfield, Ohio

A revitalized Midwestern city shows that immigrants can be a solution to economic decline and malaise.

Argument
Julian E. Zelizer

Asia & the Pacific

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to guests while security and other officials mill about around him. Xi wears a black suit and smiles as he looks toward the crowd.
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to guests while security and other officials mill about around him. Xi wears a black suit and smiles as he looks toward the crowd.

Xi Jinping Is Prioritizing Political Survival Over Economic Prosperity
Argument
Raja Krishnamoorthi

Sri Lanka’s Next President May Face Uphill Battle

Bangladesh Picks Up the Pieces After the Revolution

South Korea Goes Nuclear. Then What?

China

Employees work on a new energy vehicle assembly line at a BYD factory in Huaian.
Employees work on a new energy vehicle assembly line at a BYD factory in Huaian.

Biden’s High-Wire Balancing Act on Chinese Tech
Analysis
Lili Pike

Chinese Official’s Suspicious Death Stirs Speculation

China Has Become Powerful Before It Is Rich

China Should Worry About Europe if It Attacks Taiwan

Middle East & Africa

Officials of BRICS countries pose for a family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Aug. 23, 2023.
Officials of BRICS countries pose for a family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Aug. 23, 2023.

What Is South Africa’s Foreign Policy?
Q&A
Ravi Agrawal

The U.S. Has a Better Offer for Africa Than Debt

Somalia-Ethiopia Tensions Mount

The Hezbollah Pager Explosions Are More Dangerous Than You Think

Europe

Switchboard operators manually connect calls at a telephone exchange in Paris on March 14, 1935.
Switchboard operators manually connect calls at a telephone exchange in Paris on March 14, 1935.

Why Europe Is Losing the Tech Race
Argument
Agathe Demarais

Europe Is Far From Trump-Proofed

Don’t Let Germany Go Back to Its Old Russia Tricks

After Centuries, Ukraine Cuts Religious Ties With Russia

Americas

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24.

Latin America Goes to UNGA
Latin America Brief
Catherine Osborn

AMLO Was No Isolationist

The World Is Leaving Biden Behind

Washington’s Playbook for China Must Change
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Situation Report Newsletter

Your guide to the most essential national security, defense, and cybersecurity news. FP reporters Jack Detsch and Amy Mackinnon keep you up to date with everything you need to keep track of foreign policy—with an eye on why it matters to Washington. Delivered Thursday.

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Current Issue: Fall 2024 Archives
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The cover of the Fall 2024 print issue of Foreign Policy magazine.
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Letters to the Next President

No matter who wins the White House, these nine thinkers from around the world would like a word.

Analysis
Catherine Ashton, Jason Bordoff, Arancha González, Martin Kimani, Mark Malloch-Brown, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Danny Quah, Nirupama Rao, Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Pencil drawn portraits of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are overlapped, one in blue and one in red.

Is 2024 Really the Most Important Election in History?

Democracy—and the global system—might not be so easily dismantled.

Essay
Michael Hirsh

The Top International Relations Schools of 2024, Ranked
Infographic
Irene Entringer García Blanes, Susan Peterson, Michael J. Tierney

Revisiting Chinese Empire
Review
Bethany Allen

Politics Is TikTok’s Newest Dance Move
Essay
Jordan Hoffman

Modi’s Long Game
Review
Salil Tripathi
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A collage illustration shows Kamala Harris atop a world map with arrows pointing in various directions.

The Kamala Harris Doctrine

Everything we know about the Democratic nominee’s foreign-policy views.

Analysis
FP Staff
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Small headshots inside red circles of 11 of Donald Trumps foreign-policy advisors.

Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers
Feature
FP Staff

Insider Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy By Ravi Agrawal

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Questions Harris and Trump Still Need to Be Asked
Argument
Stephen M. Walt
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An illustration shows a circular fortress made of shipping containers surrounding a U.S. flag on a pole.

How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Protectionism
Analysis
Bob Davis

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A view of the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Sept. 22.

Can the United Nations Still Be Effective?
Insider
Ravi Agrawal
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference.

U.S. Interest Rates are Finally Dropping. Is That Good?
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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addresses media in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2022.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addresses media in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2022.

NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg on the Future of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Insider
Ravi Agrawal

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A New South African Foreign Policy?

FP sits down with Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s foreign minister, to discuss the country’s policy of “nonalignment,” BRICS, and its role in Africa.

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H.R. McMaster on America’s Foreign-Policy Choices
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Amb. Nicholas Burns on the China Challenge

Weekend Reads

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Silicon Valley Hasn’t Revolutionized Warfare—Yet

The Pentagon is warming up to commercial technologies, but it has a long way to go.

Review
Sam Winter-Levy
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A group of people in period costume, one holding a large bird of prey.

What Happens in 14th-Century Florence Does Not Stay in 14th-Century Florence
Review
Jordan Hoffman
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A photo illustration shows a fine art from with a woman in a green cocktail dress.

When a Love Triangle Meets Economics
Review
Johannes Lichtman
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A portrait of Nate Silver in a circle atop a green background with poker chips falling.

‘On the Edge’ Puts Its Bets in the Wrong Places
Review
Dave Karpf

In Case You Missed It

A selection of paywall-free articles

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An illustration shows piles of shipping containers and symbols of industry as protectionist islands in a sea.

America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up

Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.

Essay
Adam Posen
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.
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
Essay
Gordon Brown
Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.
Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.

Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
Analysis
C. Raja Mohan
An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.
An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.

A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
Analysis
Anastasia Edel
An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance.
An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance.

The China-Russia Axis Takes Shape
Analysis
Bonny Lin
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor.
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor.

No, the World Is Not Multipolar
Essay
Jo Inge Bekkevold
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.

6 Swing States Will Decide the Future of Geopolitics
Analysis
Cliff Kupchan

Subscribers’ Picks

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People gather at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

The Biggest Question About the Hezbollah Pager Attack Is Why Now

A technically adroit strike could be a curtain-raiser for an expanded conflict.

Analysis
Colin P. Clarke
A photo collage illustration shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping walking down red-carpeted stairs. At left are two sparring hawks. Behind him is the US Capitol and Donald Trump with his hand to his face. At lower right are two Chinese protesters.
A photo collage illustration shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping walking down red-carpeted stairs. At left are two sparring hawks. Behind him is the US Capitol and Donald Trump with his hand to his face. At lower right are two Chinese protesters.

How Does the U.S.-China ‘Cold War’ End?

Republicans are divided on whether regime change in Beijing should be the ultimate goal.

Deep Dive
Lili Pike
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A photo illustration shows a missile in place of a direction indicator on the face of a compass.

A Course Correction on National Security

The next president will need to embark on a radically different path from the past two administrations.

Argument
Jane Harman, Eric S. Edelman
Pencil drawn portraits of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are overlapped, one in blue and one in red.
Pencil drawn portraits of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are overlapped, one in blue and one in red.

Is 2024 Really the Most Important Election in History?

Democracy—and the global system—might not be so easily dismantled.

Essay
Michael Hirsh

Books

Book covers for several new novels out in September including My Friends and The Hypocrite.
Book covers for several new novels out in September including My Friends and The Hypocrite.

The Novels We’re Reading in September

From Sicilian psychodrama to Qaddafi’s Libya.

Books
Chloe Hadavas, Allison Meakem
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, Peter Hessler, Penguin Press, $32, 464 pp, July 2024
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, Peter Hessler, Penguin Press, $32, 464 pp, July 2024

Peter Hessler’s ‘Rivers’ Have Been Damned by the Chinese Government
Review
James Palmer
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The book cover for Punishing Putin by Stephanie Baker

The Art of Punishing Putin
Review
Keith Johnson
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The book cover for America's Cold Warrior

The Return of Paul Nitze—and His Dangers
Review
Theodore Bunzel
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The book cover of From the Periphery to the Center, an autobiography of

How to Get Kim Jong Un’s Email
Q&A
S. Nathan Park
This article has been adapted from The Abiy Project: God, Power, and War in the New Ethiopia by Tom Gardner (Hurst, 368 pp., $37.99, September 2024).
This article has been adapted from The Abiy Project: God, Power, and War in the New Ethiopia by Tom Gardner (Hurst, 368 pp., $37.99, September 2024).

The Many Faces of Abiy Ahmed
Excerpt
Tom Gardner
A cartoon shows Stalin as the central figure with Roosevelt at left and Churchill smoking at right as they lean over a map of Europe.
A cartoon shows Stalin as the central figure with Roosevelt at left and Churchill smoking at right as they lean over a map of Europe.

Roosevelt, Yalta, and the Origins of the Cold War
Excerpt
Phillips Payson O’Brien

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