America’s Supply Chains Are Foreign Policy Now Why the push to bring home manufacturing won’t work—and what Biden should do instead. Foreign Policy · Feb 16, 2021
Biden’s Trade Plans Will Boost China’s Power in Asia Supporting the middle class at home and reasserting leadership abroad may be mutually exclusive, especially in Asia. Foreign Policy · Feb 16, 2021
America’s India Problem Is All About Russia Forget U.S. sanctions over arms deals. Indian-Russian alignment is in Washington’s best interest. Foreign Policy · Feb 16, 2021
Reviving the Nuclear Deal Gives the U.S. More Leverage Over Iran Maintaining maximum pressure to inflict more pain won’t bring Tehran back to the negotiating table or halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Foreign Policy · Feb 15, 2021
The Pandemic Is Putting Gangsters in Power As states struggle, organized crime is rising to new prominence. Foreign Policy · Feb 15, 2021
First Fiji, Then the World How the prime minister of a tiny group of Pacific islands has become an international power player. Foreign Policy · Feb 15, 2021
Modi Spent India’s Soft Power—and Got Little in Return The prime minister has decided that international criticism is a price worth paying for pursuing his domestic agenda, but he shouldn’t be so sure. Foreign Policy · Feb 15, 2021
A Grand Old Identity Crisis Trump may have been acquitted, but his brand has been damaged. The Republican Party now faces a battle for its future. Foreign Policy · Feb 14, 2021
The Founding Fathers of International Relations Theory Loved War but Overlooked Sex Pre-modern European power was grounded in marriage and childbirth, not just conflict. Foreign Policy · Feb 14, 2021
The Dictator’s Ghost Horror has always been political. In Jayro Bustamante’s “La Llorona,” the long shadow of genocide haunts the house. Foreign Policy · Feb 14, 2021
France Still Struggles With the Shadow of the ‘War Without a Name’ The brutal Algerian War killed hundreds of thousands of people—and deeply marks French politics and society to this day. Foreign Policy · Feb 13, 2021
Big Government Is Back The pandemic has discredited decades of free market orthodoxy—but not all visions of state interventionism are progressive. Foreign Policy · Feb 13, 2021
Biden Should Finish Trump’s One Good Trade Idea The president can corner China by bringing one of his predecessor’s foreign-policy initiatives to completion. Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021
Uganda’s Museveni Won’t Go Quietly Emboldened by his recent reelection and longtime Western support, the entrenched president appears determined to quash his opposition. Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021
Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021 The United States Should Give Fleeing Uighurs a Home It’s time for Washington to build on the momentum of the State Department’s genocide declaration and prioritize Uighurs for resettlement.
Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021 Ukraine’s President Finally Flexes His Muscles Volodymyr Zelensky is taking on his country’s pro-Russian media machine. But can he emerge victorious?
Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021 The Death of the Carbon Coalition Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.
Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021 A Fight Over a Trump Official Could Block Aid to Latin America The largest provider of urgently needed aid is up for a bigger budget, but some Democrats first want to remove its Trump-nominated head.
Foreign Policy · Feb 12, 2021 Why Convicting Trump is Key to Biden’s Foreign Policy With U.S. credibility so low, promoting democracy is harder than ever—so Washington should get its own house in order first.
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 Washington’s Window Is Closing Fast in Myanmar Targeted, sharp action to reverse the coup is urgently needed.
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 How to Live With Authoritarians Democracies have to learn how to manage some people’s innate fears of change.
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 Confused About Dogecoin? Here’s How It (Doesn’t) Work. Even the best-intentioned cryptocurrencies can become scams.
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 How the Pandemic Made the ‘Last Acceptable Prejudice’ Worse Ageism has colored the response to COVID-19 and is setting everyone up for a more difficult economic recovery.
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 Pressure Mounts on Biden to Cancel Billions More in Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia The U.S. president has already halted some arms sales to the Gulf. How he handles the rest will be a bellwether for progressives’ sway over…
Foreign Policy · Feb 11, 2021 The Long Road to Free Trade in Nigeria—and Beyond The African Continental Free Trade Area is already running up against the hard realities of the continent’s endemic trade barriers.