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An Israeli army soldier stands next to a machine gun turret atop a howitzer near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel.
An Israeli army soldier stands next to a machine gun turret atop a howitzer near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel.

Will the Cease-Fire Change Israel’s Strategy?

Biden is telling Netanyahu to tread lightly.

Report
Jack Detsch
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a summit meeting at Filoli House in Woodside, California on Nov. 15.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a summit meeting at Filoli House in Woodside, California on Nov. 15.

Why Xi Thinks He Got the Better of Biden

The summit may have calmed relations, but don’t expect that state to last.

Analysis
James Crabtree
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
People are seen marching at a demonstration.
People are seen marching at a demonstration.

Jordan’s Teetering Balancing Act

Amid mass pro-Palestine protests, the monarchy is caught between the United States, Israel, and its own people.

Analysis
Marta Vidal

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The Year-End AUKUS Push
Situation Report
Jack Detsch, Robbie Gramer, Rishi Iyengar

Israel Weighing Special Court for Palestinian Suspects in Oct. 7 Massacre
Analysis
Dahlia Scheindlin

South Korea Offers a Chance to Modernize Old Alliances
Argument
Clint Work, Hanbyeol Sohn

India Looks to Seize Opportunity at COP28
South Asia Brief
Michael Kugelman

Asia & the Pacific

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Four men with rifles sit on the ground against a wall painted with Arabic script.

The ICC Should Prosecute Taliban Leaders
Argument
Atal Ahmadzai

The Inconvenient Truth of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples

India’s New Middle East Strategy Takes Shape

Has India’s Adani Group Prevailed?

China

Children and their parents wait at an outpatient area at a children's hospital in Beijing.
Children and their parents wait at an outpatient area at a children's hospital in Beijing.

Cold and Flu Season Stirs Dread in China
China Brief
James Palmer

Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak

The Masterminds

This Isn’t a Honeymoon Phase for the U.S. and China

Middle East & Africa

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peacekeeper plas soccer with children in east timor

Why Gaza Won’t End Up Like East Timor or Kosovo
Argument
Marc Weller

Will the Congolese Opposition Unite?

What’s Stopping Egypt From Stepping Up in Gaza?

The Global North Is Alienating the Global South Before COP28 Even Starts

Europe

British Royal Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. Rory Cheyne, an exchange officer with the U.S. Navy, flies an F-18 Super Hornet past HMS Prince of Wales.
British Royal Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. Rory Cheyne, an exchange officer with the U.S. Navy, flies an F-18 Super Hornet past HMS Prince of Wales.

Britain’s Navy Is Diminished. Its Ambitions Are Not.
Dispatch
Alexander Wooley

How Centrists Helped Geert Wilders Win the Dutch Election

What Geert Wilders Wants in Europe

Populist Rage Gives Dutch Far Right a Worrying Shot at Power

Americas

El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele, wearing clear plastic goggles and a black zip-up jacket, spreads his arms enthusiastically as he speaks during a joint news conference. He stands behind a podium and in front of U.S. and Salvadoran flags.
El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele, wearing clear plastic goggles and a black zip-up jacket, spreads his arms enthusiastically as he speaks during a joint news conference. He stands behind a podium and in front of U.S. and Salvadoran flags.

Bukele’s Bitcoin Mess and the U.S.-Backed Bank That Enabled It
Deep Dive
Danielle Mackey

Why COP28 Could Be the Most Contentious in Years

Panama’s Mining Future Is at a Tipping Point

Javier Milei’s Next Challenge: Governing Argentina

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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
Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen speaks onstage during TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2016 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, California.
Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen speaks onstage during TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2016 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, California.

Why Silicon Valley Loves the Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Insider
Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' week in Woodside, California.
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' week in Woodside, California.

The Biden-Xi Meeting: Did the White House Get More Than It Gave?
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."
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

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

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

Excerpt
Sam Lebovic
A painting shows the buildings lining Old University Square in Vienna. People walk in the foreground.
A painting shows the buildings lining Old University Square in Vienna. People walk in the foreground.

The Untold Story of Vienna’s Global Influence
Review
Emily Schultheis
An illustration of a Coca-Cola bottle in the foreground as a casualty of war, with a small flame remaining. The desolate background shows silhouettes of soldiers and a tank.
An illustration of a Coca-Cola bottle in the foreground as a casualty of war, with a small flame remaining. The desolate background shows silhouettes of soldiers and a tank.

Brands Are the First Casualty of War
Argument
Paul Musgrave
A tram car moves along a street in Lisbon, framed on either side by buildings in the foreground. Another building looms over the tram in the background, with plaster siding and balconies in front of some of its windows. A woman in a sleeveless shirt and jeans walks on a crosswalk in front of the tram.
A tram car moves along a street in Lisbon, framed on either side by buildings in the foreground. Another building looms over the tram in the background, with plaster siding and balconies in front of some of its windows. A woman in a sleeveless shirt and jeans walks on a crosswalk in front of the tram.

Is Portugal’s Golden Visa Scheme Worth It?
Dispatch
Kitty Greenwald

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The USS Nimitz and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and South Korean Navy warships sail in formation during a joint naval exercise off the South Korean coast.

America Is a Heartbeat Away From a War It Could Lose

Global war is neither a theoretical contingency nor the fever dream of hawks and militarists.

Shadow Government
A. Wess Mitchell
U.S. President Joe Biden talks to fellow leaders during the group photo at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Dec. 15, 2022 in Washington.
U.S. President Joe Biden talks to fellow leaders during the group photo at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Dec. 15, 2022 in Washington.

The West Should Give Up the Battle of Narratives

The Western world has misunderstood what the global south really wants.

Argument
Julien Barnes-Dacey, Jeremy Shapiro
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Biden and Xi shake hands while standing on a red carpet next to a white marble column.

Why Xi Was All Smiles With Biden

The Chinese president’s strong-arm diplomacy hasn’t worked.

Analysis
Howard W. French
Members of Hamas' armed wing hold a Palestinian flag atop an Israeli tank. A border fence stretches behind them in the distance.
Members of Hamas' armed wing hold a Palestinian flag atop an Israeli tank. A border fence stretches behind them in the distance.

What Was Hamas Thinking?

The Oct. 7 attack was the culmination of a strategic shift to challenge the movement’s containment.

Argument
Tareq Baconi

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Foreign Policy’s Holiday Book List

Our columnists and staff writers recommend their top reads for the end of the year.

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FP Staff, FP Contributors
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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?
Review
Stan Veuger
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Book cover for Material World by Ed Conway

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

Elon Musk Is the Messy Hero of Our Messy Age
Review
Zachary Karabell
The cover of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash.
The cover of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash.

How the European Project Fell Apart
Review
Jan-Werner Müller
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The book cover for Mathias Doepfner's The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business With Dictators

A Grand Plan for a Much Poorer World
Review
Bob Davis
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The Best Books for Understanding the Israel-Hamas War
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Most big economies are inextricably tied to both Washington and Beijing.

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