The Year in Review
List of The Year in Review articles
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A protester walks past barricades in Haiti. 10 Important Stories You Might Have Missed in 2019
China’s designs in space, a drought crisis in southern Africa, and other stories you may have missed during this year’s chaotic and nonstop news cycle.
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President Donald Trump speaks alongside U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the White House. A Rocky Year for U.S. Diplomacy
Whether it was confrontations with Iran and China or the never-ending Ukraine imbroglio, 2019 was a tumultuous year for American foreign policy.
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Students attend a rally at Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong on Aug. 22. 2019: A Year of Global Protest
Even as right-wing forces took hold in many places around the world, grassroots democracy proved itself alive and well.
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He presents U.S. President Donald Trump with a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping after the two discussed a U.S.-China trade agreement. Trump Turns Global Trade Upside Down
With precious few victories to show for it, Washington keeps starting new trade wars.
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View of Tehran shops that were destroyed after nationwide demonstrations broke out in protest of fuel price hikes and led to widespread destruction of property, on Nov. 20. Iran’s Year Is a Rorschach Test
2019 proved the Trump administration’s Iran policy is either a catastrophic failure—or on the verge of success.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the troops The Afghanistan Problem That Won’t Go Away
Even now, 18 years in, there is no clear way out for the United States.
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A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Police Forces of Asayish Greenlighted by Trump, Turkey Invades Syria
Five essential reads on the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria.
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Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s Election Redux
The best Foreign Policy stories of 2019 on Israel’s electoral crisis.
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Police officers during a protest in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s Turbulent Year
Foreign Policy’s five best reads on a city in chaos.
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article-fp-guide-kashmir-modi-india If You Think Kashmir Was Turbulent in 2019, Wait for Next Year
The region exploded onto the front page in 2019. In 2020, the stories could get far grimmer.
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Yemeni children from the Hodeidah province are seen through a hole in a damaged house where they have been living with other displaced families in the southwestern city of Taez on Sept. 30. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images) The Year That Washington Finally Cared About Yemen
Five Reads: The best Foreign Policy stories of 2018 on Yemen.
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(Etienne Oliveau/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration) Beijing’s Big, Bad Year
Five Reads: The best Foreign Policy stories of 2018 on China.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meet in the White House on March 20, 2018 Our Top Stories of 2018
From the Mueller investigation to China’s expanding influence, these are the pieces readers clicked on the most.
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(Matt Chase illustration for Foreign Policy) The Internet Will Doom Us All
Five Reads: The best Foreign Policy stories of 2018 on tech.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18. Putin was re-elected to a fourth term as president in 2018. (Sergei Chirikov/AFP/Getty Images) In Russia, 2018 Ends You
Five Reads: The best Foreign Policy stories to help make sense of Russia′s role in the world in 2018.
