Nationalism Is Underrated by Intellectuals From enjoying the Olympics to defeating COVID-19, a small dose of collective pride can go a long way toward success. Foreign Policy · Aug 3, 2021
Why Is America Cooperating With Militaries Running Criminal Rackets? U.S. international security cooperation urgently needs an overhaul by Congress. Foreign Policy · Aug 3, 2021
Taiwan Showed How to Prosecute an Ex-President The trial of Chen Shui-bian strengthened democracy, despite fears of division. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
The Pathological Obsession With Moving the Olympics Having a single host site would be a simple—and entirely traditional—fix for what ails the Games. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
Edi Rama Is Building Bridges to Europe—or Nowhere As an artist, he dreamed of the West. As Albanian prime minister, the West is letting him down. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
Xi Jinping Is Using Party Outreach to Build an Anti-U.S. Bloc An overlooked summit shows the scale of the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitions. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
No Matter What Biden Calls U.S. Troops in Iraq, Iran Is Gunning for Them Relabeling U.S. soldiers as “noncombat” won’t spare them from militia attacks. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
To Improve Women’s Access to Capital in Africa, Look to California Development finance institutions should follow California’s highly effective gender-equitable standards. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
What Biden Can Learn From Europe’s Industrial Policy It’s not about the size of a spending package but about sharing brainpower and creating networks. Foreign Policy · Aug 2, 2021
The IOC Should Stop Lying to Itself About the Beijing Olympics Allowing the Games to happen alongside an ongoing genocide would be a disaster. Foreign Policy · Aug 1, 2021
In Alaa al-Aswany’s New Novel, Dictatorship Keeps Winning “Republic of False Truths” defers any happy ending to the Arab Spring. Foreign Policy · Aug 1, 2021
What Biden Really Thinks About Democracy Promotion The new U.S president has crafted a novel approach to human rights that’s marked both by idealism and humility. Foreign Policy · Jul 31, 2021
Be Wary of China Threat Inflation Look at what happened with the Soviet threat in the Cold War. Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021
Afghanistan’s War Splinters as Southern Tribes Fight for Spoils Key cities including Herat and Kandahar could be the next to fall as Afghanistan’s nightmare continues. Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021
Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021 Don’t Let Cuba’s Protest Momentum Evaporate U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration should listen to activists on the ground.
Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021 Top Counterterrorism Envoy Could Be First U.S. Ambassador to Sudan in Decades Experts said Washington needs an envoy to help shepherd Sudan’s tenuous transition to democracy.
Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021 Beijing’s Attempts to Intimidate Taiwan Have Backfired Chinese coercion has strengthened democratic resolve.
Foreign Policy · Jul 30, 2021 The China Model Will Never Work in Iran Tehran thinks it can have Chinese-style authoritarian prosperity—but Iranian leaders will never abandon revolution or offer citizens rising living standards in exchange for acquiescence.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 The New Anti-Gay Bill Proposed in Ghana Will Destroy Lives It happened to us in Nigeria.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 Venezuela Is Without a Vaccination Plan Maduro’s abject failure is consequential for the nation, the region, and the world.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 Japan Wasted a Golden Chance for Olympic Reconciliation Tokyo-Seoul relations remain mired in bad history and petty insults.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 You Shouldn’t Have to Pay for That IR Master’s Institutions like the State Department need to scrap credentialism.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 Cuba Needs a Free Internet The United States can play a key role in supporting online liberty.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 Biden Isn’t Selling Out on Nord Stream 2. He’s Protecting U.S. Firms. If Washington can sanction any company for legal activity it doesn’t like, China and others could do the same to U.S. businesses—making them uninsurable.
Foreign Policy · Jul 29, 2021 Even a Short War Over Taiwan or the Baltics Would Be Devastating Scenarios and war games rarely take full account of civilian losses.