Beijing’s Welcome Gift to Biden: More Threats and Tensions If China is seeking a reset of relations, it has a strange way of showing it. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
Why Attempts to Build a New Anti-China Alliance Will Fail The big strategic game in Asia isn’t military but economic. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
Sisi’s Last Stand The Egyptian president enjoyed relative impunity during the Trump years. Now, an uptick in repression at home—and criticism from abroad—may end up spelling his downfall. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
The Qatar Blockade Is Over, but the Gulf Crisis Lives On Efforts at regional reconciliation have done nothing to address the core differences that divide Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
What a New Iran Nuclear Deal Really Requires To get Washington’s Gulf partners on board, Biden needs an actual strategy for protecting them and ways to make them contribute to it. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
The Capitol Coup Attempt Was the Far-Right’s Opening Shot Jan. 6 was a classic example of propaganda by the deed—a revolutionary approach favored by everyone from 19th-century anarchists to Osama bin Laden. Foreign Policy · Jan 27, 2021
Putin Has Learned From Belarus in Handling the Navalny Protests The Russian regime has barely started to tap its vast toolkit for violence and intimidation. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Taking Trump Down Has Exposed Social Media’s Inherent Contradictions Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
You Can’t Blame Russia for Trump America’s reality TV autocrat was a homegrown creation. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Biden’s U.N. Pick Assembles Team of Foreign-Policy Veterans Linda Thomas-Greenfield is staffing her New York and Washington offices with a range of career and political foreign-policy hands with extensive experience in U.N. affairs. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Qatar Is Using the Palestinians to Assert Its Regional Influence It probably won’t work out well for either party. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Don’t Pursue Saudi-Israeli Peace at Jordan’s Expense The Hashemite Kingdom views custodianship of Jerusalem’s holy sites as a core national interest. Rumors that Riyadh is seeking to displace Amman would humiliate and… Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Poland’s Businesses Are Rejecting Their Lockdown The Polish government ordered the economy to shut down. Small-business owners organized a mutiny. Foreign Policy · Jan 26, 2021
Navalny’s Bravery Is Unlikely to Shift Putin’s Entrenched Power There’s no sign of defection from Russia’s security services, let alone the army. Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 Biden Has a Model for Dealing With Regional Fears of Iranian Missiles and Proxies The Arms Control and Regional Security working group convened after the 1991 Madrid peace conference failed, but it offers important lessons for today.
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 Among the Unanticipated Outcomes of the U.S. Election: A Palestinian One Abbas agrees to face voters more than a decade after his term expired.
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 India Can’t Say It Wants U.S. Help Against China The Sikkim clash and a declassified Indo-Pacific strategy raise tough questions for New Delhi.
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 With Russia Protesting Navalny’s Arrest, Calls Mount to Target Putin’s Inner Circle The Russian president’s ill-gotten wealth has proved a flash point for mounting nationwide protests, with another planned for next weekend.
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 Biden Must Rethink the American Way of War Fighting drags on because it places too little burden on the public and politicians. That has to change.
Foreign Policy · Jan 25, 2021 Israel’s Arabs May Help Netanyahu Avoid Trump’s Miserable Fate Netanyahu is courting Arab voters in a bid to win the election, curry favor with Biden, save the Abraham Accords, and stay out of prison.
Foreign Policy · Jan 24, 2021 The Greatest Humanitarian You’ve Never Heard Of Bob Gersony was a mostly anonymous U.S. diplomat—and his country’s best model for creating change in the world.
Foreign Policy · Jan 24, 2021 The World Needs a Cyber-WHO to Counter Viruses in Cyberspace A global body has helped poorer nations counter COVID-19, but less technologically advanced countries need a similar institution to protect against the coming plague of…
Foreign Policy · Jan 23, 2021 Rwanda’s Rendition of a Hollywood Hero Confirms the Country’s Descent Into Dictatorship Paul Rusesabagina is the latest dissident to be caught in the Rwandan ruler’s authoritarian net. Western governments must stop portraying President Paul Kagame’s repressive regime…
Foreign Policy · Jan 23, 2021 Our Amazing Clean Energy Future Has Arrived The evidence of a great green wave is now overwhelming. And it will only get better.
Foreign Policy · Jan 23, 2021 No Bread, No Peace National security experts need to put food back on the table as a core issue.