A woman is lit by the glow from her mobile phone as she sits on a wooden bunk in an underground air raid shelter following an alert on May 3 in Lviv, Ukraine.
Geopolitics dominated the world in 2022, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and competition between the United States and China impacting everything from energy to food to semiconductors.
What t...Show morerends from 2022 will prove enduring? How will foreign policy shape the world in 2023? Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a conversation with FP columnist and Harvard University professor Stephen M. Walt. The first part of this exclusive on-demand session will focus on the year that was; the second will look ahead to the next 12 months. Subscribers can send in their questions in advance.
Afghan internally displaced refugee men stand in a queue to identify themselves and get cash as they return home to the east, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in the outskirts of Kabul on July 28, 2022. - Hundreds of internally displaced Afghans who had taken refuge in the capital left for their homes in the country's eastern provinces Thursday, almost a year after the war that forced them to flee ended. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
David Miliband’s job is to anticipate and respond to the world’s worst crises, so his organization—the International Rescue Committee—can figure out how to help people rebuild their ...Show morelives afterward. How will the various crises in the world play out in 2023, and what can the international community do to mitigate the catastrophe? What are world leaders doing wrong? And how can populations in need receive proper aid?
There’s no one better to ask for answers to these questions than Miliband, who will be in conversation with FP’s Ravi Agrawal. Expect the discussion to cover a broad range of topics, from food insecurity in South Sudan to the human displacement in Ukraine, as well as gang violence and poor sanitation in Haiti and the wreckage from years of war in Syria. Enter the new year better informed—and equipped to help solve—humanity’s biggest problems.
A Panzerhaubitze 2000 tank howitzer fires during a mission in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in July 2022. Julia Kochetova photo
Remember the adage that generals always fight the last war? Of late, we at FP have been wondering: What can Russia’s war in Ukraine teach the world going forward? What have we learned so f...Show morear, and how can we apply those lessons to make sure we don’t sleepwalk into yet another war?
FP’s Winter 2023 print issue brings together 12 experts to help us answer those questions. Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal in conversation with two of the contributors to the magazine’s cover story, Anne-Marie Slaughter and retired Gen. David Petraeus, as they discuss how the war in Ukraine can shed light on and improve cybersecurity, information operations, sanctions, and better inform reforms to treaties, nuclear weapons proliferation, and more.