Essay
List of Essay articles
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containment-soviet-era-modern-threat-china-foreign-policy-ula-sveikauskaite-illustration-article The Return of Containment
What the Cold War policy means for our current moment.
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africa-us-foreign-policy-kingsley-nebechi-illustration-hp How to Restore U.S. Credibility in Africa
By standing up for democracy and free trade, the United States can outflank China and Russia, its authoritarian rivals on the continent.
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Biden-China-asia-pivot-mojo-wang-illustration_hp A New Pivot to Asia
The fuzzy goodwill between Biden and America’s Asian allies will soon be tested by China’s growing power.
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bad-Ideas-foreign-policy-50-years-joan-wong-illustration When U.S. Foreign Policy Went Wrong
How to spot a bad concept when you see it.
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President Donald Trump departs after speaking in Washington on April 17, 2019. A Conservative Foreign Policy for the Future
Continuity, not revolution, should guide the United States.
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Joe Biden in Washington on Dec. 14., 2017. Inside Joe Biden’s Foreign-Policy Worldview
The next U.S. president doesn’t belong to a single school of thought—and that’s a good thing.
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doomsday-predictions-foreign-policy-50-years-joan-wong-illustration Wonks Gone Wild
In FP’s 50 years, its writers’ forecasts have ranged from prescient to spectacularly wrong. That’s because the field of international relations rewards catastrophic thinking.
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human-rights-truth-commission-foreign-policy-50-years-noma-bar-illustration-HP Foreign Policy Begins at Home
The best way for Biden and Harris to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—and that begins with human rights.
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isolation-american-foreign-policy-50-years-noma-bar-illustration-hp The Case for a Middle Path in U.S. Foreign Policy
Neither pure isolationism nor unchecked internationalism has served the United States well. It’s time for a third option.
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The author’s essay in the Winter 1970-71 inaugural issue of Foreign Policy. Grave New World
Why Biden’s job will be so much harder than his predecessors’.
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Tourists wearing protective face masks visit the Louvre in Paris on Aug. 6 after the lifting of some coronavirus restrictions. Why Europe Wins
Everyone writes off the European Union as dull and prone to fracture. But the last decade shows that Brussels is smarter than Beijing, London, Moscow, and Washington.
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An aerial photo shows the explosion over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped. The Hiroshima Effect
Seventy-five years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might.
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Italy’s Benito Mussolini addresses a crowd in Rome on April 15, 1934. Why Fascists Fail
History’s autocrats have been the architects of their own demise. Even if he seizes power, so will Trump.
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People wait in line to receive food in Queens, New York, on May 11. To Fight Inequality, the United States Needs an FDR. Can Biden Deliver?
The COVID-19 crisis could lead to a modern-day New Deal—but only if Democrats have the courage to replace failed economic policies with radical reforms.
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A team of dressmakers works in a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 22, 2012. This Is What the Future of Globalization Will Look Like
The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules.
