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His support for the pipeline abandoned a bipartisan consensus, got nothing in return, and made the world less secure.

At the White House on Monday, the Iraqi leader needs a guarantee that Biden won’t use Iraq’s independence as a pawn in negotiations with Iran.

Foreign Policy asked nine global experts for their takes on the administration’s agenda.

Beijing’s development projects are flashy, fast, and relevant. Why aren’t Washington’s?

The administration’s core foreign policy is all about confronting China—and far riskier than Washington seems to realize.

Beijing has its eyes set on using Afghanistan as a strategic corridor once U.S. troops are out of the way.

The old trade order has gone out the window at breathtaking speed. What comes next is very slippery.

The Hariri tribunal hasn’t led to a single arrest. Biden should let it expire and help Lebanon in better ways.

The answer is yes—but more depressing than you think.

Ben Rhodes’s new book about global politics reveals the limits of the Obama administration’s worldview.

But the rival powers strike a compromise that prevents catastrophic shut-off of lifesaving aid to Syrians.

By reducing U.S.-Mexican relations to migration, Biden is letting himself be played—and ignoring a crisis south of the border.

How to make sense of Washington’s longest war ever.

What the world has misunderstood about the German chancellor.

Yes, the United States is deeply divided and probably undeserving of global leadership, as two new books argue. But who else is there?

Why is there no Rooseveltian school of foreign policy? American past and future greatness is unthinkable without it.

As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, nothing else counts but “Xi Jinping Thought.”

Cross-border access into Syria has become a stress test for Putin and Biden's nascent relationship.

His thinking on arms control proved prescient—but the howls reverberate to this day.