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Looking back on 50 years of U.S. foreign policy and the lessons they hold for Washington today.
The fuzzy goodwill between Biden and America’s Asian allies will soon be tested by China’s growing power.
The best way for Biden to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—that starts with human rights.
Despite murderous ambitions and abundant guns, the Capitol assault was a failure.
But it’s unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.
The three men standing to take over as chair of the CDU will take the party in strikingly different directions.
The Japanese government is locked into what critics call a misguided project.
Through radical protest, Stella Nyanzi has become a thorn in long-serving President Yoweri Museveni’s side. Now, she could be headed to parliament.
Taking a seat on the U.N. Security Council would clash with some fundamental tenets of Swiss foreign policy.
The ineptitude of the FSB sends a message about how powerful it is.
And it is time to treat it like one.
There’s never been a better time for the United States to promote democracy around the world.
Silencing @realDonaldTrump was the easy part. Now the hard work begins.
Hypocrisy has long been a component of U.S. foreign policy. The Capitol riot doesn’t change that.
Biden’s pick for the agency’s director shows that diplomacy is back.
Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., will seek to revive a troubled agency, while Obama-era veterans Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner get top Asia jobs.
To stop drug traffickers, criminals, and kleptocrats from laundering their loot, the United States and EU must join forces.
All the new hires and plans in one place. Click to read FP’s coverage on a fraught transfer of power.
Even insurrection didn’t interrupt a tour de force of Twitter bragging.
In the global internet economy, India’s tech industry has a leg up on China’s.
Latin American history offers a clear lesson to the United States: Ban Donald Trump from running for election ever again.
Farmers say “pro-government” ruling doesn’t go far enough.
Five warning signs that your political views no longer fulfill the most basic of democratic criteria.
The president’s supporters are full of sound and fury, signifying far less than they claim.
The Abraham Accords didn’t just seal a wary detente. It cemented Israel’s first regional partnership.
China and Russia are spreading their vaccines—and forging new ties—to some of Washington’s closest allies.
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?
A race-based colonial mindset that views the continent as Europe’s playground and dismisses the concerns of Africans continues to fuel death and destruction.
Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that.
Twelve leading thinkers on geopolitics after the pandemic.
Seven predictions for how tourism will change.
Nine experts on the future of education after the pandemic.
Ten leading global thinkers on government after the pandemic.
Fists raised and voices lifted, people around the world took to the streets in 2020—to stand up against police brutality, demand democracy, and confront other injustices. A look at some of the photos that captured the year’s most defining movements.
The coronavirus pandemic—the defining event of 2020—left no corner of the world untouched as it closed down countries, upset economies, and took the lives of nearly 2 million people. A look at some of the powerful images from this historic year.