List of Leaders articles
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An illustration shows echoing overlapping images of U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World
Potential effects on the U.S. commitment to multilateralism, climate change, Taiwan, and more.
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Then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the final presidential debate against U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020. Stephen Walt on What to Expect From 2024
FP Live’s annual series looking ahead to the next 12 months.
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U.S. President Joe Biden puts his fingers to his eyes with his head bowed and hands clasped in prayer. A folder sits on his lap as he sits in the lower house of the Irish parliament. Biden and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
The U.S. president’s foreign-policy strategy came undone in 2023.
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An illustration showing a torn Russian flag and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Is Russia’s Future a Forever War?
The Kremlin is hunkering down, but 2023 showed that its rule is less stable than it wants us to think.
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A portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a tombstone. 5 News Stories That Made a Splash
From the war in Ukraine to Sudan’s implosion, FP’s reporters were on the case.
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An illustration shows a stylized globe with a crack through it. A hand with a wrench tightens the screw atop the globe. The Field of Geopolitics Offers Both Promise and Peril
The world’s most dismal science could make Eurasia safe for illiberalism and predation—or protect it from those forces.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his year-end press conference at Gostiny Dvor exhibition hall in central Moscow. No, Putin Is Not One of the Year’s ‘Winners’
Seven ways the exodus of Western companies has cratered the Russian economy.
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A woman poses for a photo in front of a tall decorated Christmas tree in front of a war-damanged building in Melitopol in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region with a Russian flag flying from a tall pole overhead. What a Russian Victory Would Mean for Ukraine
Ukrainians would face terror on a scale not seen in Europe since the 20th-century era of totalitarian rule.
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A grid collage shows photos of world leaders in profile, including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and, former U.S. President Donald Trump. These photos are layered over an illustration of Julius Caesar in the background. The Original Authoritarian
A new book looks at how Julius Caesar’s legacy informs the strongmen of today.
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Then-Secretary of State John Kerry talks with China’s special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, during the COP21 climate change summit in Le Bourget, north of Paris. The Climate Envoys Who Could
John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua have forged a close working relationship as the superpowers they represent have drifted apart.
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Biden, dressed in a casual half-zip sweatshirt, looks pensively downward as he stands facing numerous press microphones held out in his direction. Grading Biden on the Israel-Hamas War
For a crisis with so many moving parts, the U.S. president has fared pretty well.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a summit meeting at Filoli House in Woodside, California on Nov. 15. Why Xi Thinks He Got the Better of Biden
The summit may have calmed relations, but don’t expect that state to last.
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Hamas' political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh addresses supporters during a rally in solidarity with the Palestinians outside Qatar's Imam Muhammad Abdel-Wahhab Mosque in the capital Doha on May 15, 2021. Hamas’s Political Leaders Aren’t in Charge
The group’s leadership in exile has taken a back seat to its officials in Gaza.
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A Ukrainian soldier in helmet and fatigues holds a cell phone and looks up at the night sky as an explosion lights up the horizon behind him. The West’s False Choice in Ukraine
The crossroads is not between war and compromise, but between victory and defeat.
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Biden and Xi shake hands while standing on a red carpet next to a white marble column. Why Xi Was All Smiles With Biden
The Chinese president’s strong-arm diplomacy hasn’t worked.
