Foreign Policy

Its effects continue to shape national security policy today.

The far-right party surges in a regional election.

India and China compete to shape the bloc’s agenda moving forward.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 5: A German state votes, Philippine police make a high-profile arrest, and Nigeria appoints a new military commander.

Few Americans have the vocabulary to describe what’s making them miserable.

The continent offers solutions to some of the West’s most vexing problems.

In a new book, Sally Hayden considers how journalists can puncture the detachment of the privileged.

Kyiv’s energy war on Russia may hurt on the margins, but the real culprit is Trump’s war on Iran.

It’s the strategic disaster that keeps on giving.

The Israeli government’s greatest source of diplomatic influence is the popularity of its military equipment.

The country is asking the U.K. to consider compensation for the harms of slavery.

Three top experts on the terror threat 25 years after 9/11.

Houthi control of a Red Sea port brings Tehran closer to claiming another critical waterway.

Carlos the Jackal left behind a violent, celebrity-obsessed world.

Indonesia is experiencing 5 percent growth, but not everyone is feeling it.

By pressuring Seoul to support his Iran war, Trump is weakening a vital alliance.

Track-two science diplomacy can provide vital safeguards on AI.

Failed wars are predictable, if you know what to look for.

Such assaults put the Strait of Hormuz under growing pressure as global crude prices skyrocket.

Ahead of the group’s leaders’ summit, New Delhi is pulling out the stops.

Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack.

The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system.

An erratic United States and a rising China have the region recalibrating.

How to survive in a world without rules.

Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world.

The importance of a “common good” compass.

The era of easy growth is over, but rich and poor countries can still join forces.

Not every People’s Liberation Army general commands troops.

Are European countries finally ready to publicly call out Russian sabotage?

Houthi strikes risk adding a new front to the Iran conflict.

The United States lacks the people to power its critical mineral ambitions.

As U.S. opinion shifts, Europe has an opportunity to be a player, not just a payer.

Seoul can prove itself a genuine partner to Europe, not just an opportunist.

The countries can cooperate—even without trust or consensus.

A proposal for a new international system that is at once centralized and regionalized.

Iran’s long-running security strategy hasn’t survived the current war.

A plan that a GOP senator proudly championed in 1970 is today seen as radical.

The counterterrorism community struggles with how technology might be applied to novel use cases.

Buenos Aires is taking advantage of fraying ties between the United States and Britain.

A defining period in U.S. foreign policy has ended, but it remains misunderstood.

Why the U.S. right should rediscover the virtues of a global legal order.

Emily St. John Mandel explores what follows U.S. collapse, plus more fiction in September.

Trust the French to add a wild twist.

Test yourself on the week of Aug. 29: Iceland votes, China threatens Pacific island nations, and Guinea-Bissau approves a new constitution.

U.S. allies won’t love it, but American interests come first.

José Mourinho’s lessons on how to influence people (and not win friends).

Critics have decried the opaque agreement as oligarchic and colonialist.

The case for the White House’s Security Council resolution on Sudan, made by two senior administration officials.

Like the Iran war itself, the carrier’s deployment lasted far longer than Trump expected or planned.