List of War articles
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Adam-Tooze-best-of-2023-podcast-3-2 5 Times Tooze in 2023
The year’s best episodes of the podcast about how economics permeates everything.
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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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A screen grab captured from a Houthi Media Center video shows the cargo ship Galaxy being hijacked by Iran-backed Houthis from Yemen in the Red Sea. Iran Threatens to Take Red Sea Disruption to New Waters
Targeting shipping has been disturbingly successful.
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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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A Palestinian is seen from behind as they look outside through a large broken window. Some shards of fractured glass remain in the frame, but the rest of the opening reveals dark smoke billowing from a dense street of buildings in Gaza City. The sky is otherwise light but hazy. The Year of the Israel-Hamas War
The events of Oct. 7 sparked a conflagration in the Middle East that has reverberated around the world.
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Hussein al-Sheikh attends the funeral of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Year’s Best Profiles
Examining some of the political figures who changed our world in 2023.
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People visit a makeshift memorial for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in central Moscow on Oct. 1. Russia Is Divvying Up Prigozhin’s Empire Among Putin’s Cronies
Wagner’s African resources are up for grabs.
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An illustration shows the faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted by wavy lines of a fragmented map of Europe and Asia. Foreign Policy’s Best Articles on Geopolitics and Strategy
Five big-think articles from 2023 that cut through the news.
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A soldier fighting for Ukraine stands in front of a destroyed monastery in Dolyna, Ukraine. FP Live Looks Back at 2023
Stephen Walt explains why countries are accusing America of hypocrisy.
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Smoke plumes billow during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. A Future Look Back at Israel’s War on Hamas
How a pre-mortem analysis could limit potential failures in Gaza.
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An Indonesian soldier serving with the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) waves the U.N. flag at Israeli soldiers in the village of Adaisseh, Lebanon on August 3, 2010. The United Nations Completely Failed in Lebanon
How a U.N. peacekeeping mission may have inadvertently produced Israel’s next war.
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From left: Israel's Ehud Barak, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, and Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, during interviews on FP Live. The Best Conversations of the Year
Guests on FP Live ranged from Israel’s Ehud Barak to Taiwan’s foreign minister.
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A Panzerhaubitze 2000 tank howitzer fires during a mission in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. What 2023 Taught Us in the Russia-Ukraine War
Foreign Policy’s best reads on the state of the conflict and the implications going forward.
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An illustration shows the lopped off lower half of the globe with a diverse group of people holding it up from below for a story about the term "the global south." Was 2023 the Year of the Global South?
From the halls of the United Nations to leaders’ podiums, policymakers fixated on the concept this year.
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A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the World War I Christmas Truce soccer match is pictured inside the remains of St. Luke's Church in Liverpool, England. World War I’s ‘Silent Night’
The mythical appeal of the Christmas truce evokes the idea that ordinary people would get along if not for their governments.
