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The Foreign Affairs Interview
Foreign Affairs invites you to join its editor, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, as he talks to influential thinkers and policymakers about the forces shaping the world. Whether the topic is the war in Ukraine, the United States’ competition with China, or the future of globalization, Foreign Affairs’ weekly po...
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The Reeducation of Russia’s Military
Ever since Russia started its war in Ukraine, assessments of its military power have vacillated wildly. First, Russian forces were supposed to overrun...
Xi Jinping's Successor and the Future of China
When Xi Jinping took over the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he began a new chapter in China’s history—one that would come to be defined above all b...
Poland’s View From the Frontline of Europe
In early September, around 20 Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace. NATO and Polish forces scrambled fighter jets to shoot them down, but not befo...
Is America Ready for the Age of Cyber Warfare?
In 2024, the U.S. government discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated a huge swath of the American telecommunications system—and remained there...
The World That Tariffs Will Make
Donald Trump has been railing against the global economic order from the start of his political career. But in his second term as president, he has tu...
Can Israel Save Itself?
It has been almost two years since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza. Those many months of combat have left Hamas s...
The Rise of the Economic Security State
For decades, the United States has used its position at the center of global financial, commercial, and technological networks to punish adversaries a...
Why Is America Going It Alone?
During his second term, Donald Trump has railed against the United States’ closest allies. He has imposed tariffs, threatened to upend security commit...
Best of: Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?
In an episode released in January 2025, Senior Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke with the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about the global crash in...
Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi
In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Presi...
The Uncertain Future of U.S. Relations With India
In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, the scholar and former U.S. official Ashley J. Tellis makes a provocative argument about India’s foreign policy....
Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century
For decades, Joseph Nye was one of the true giants of American foreign policy. His career, in government and in the academy, spanned epochs, and his b...
The Coming Nuclear Hurricane
It wasn’t long ago that both heads of state and prominent policymakers could speak seriously about a world without nuclear weapons. But in the course...
Preparing for the World After Trump
For all its promise of disruption, Donald Trump’s first term as president transformed American foreign policy less than most critics feared and some s...
What a Stronger Europe Means for America
For years, U.S. presidents have complained that European governments spend far too little on their militaries, leaving the United States to pick up a...
How Weak Is Iran?
Donald Trump pledged not to entangle the United States in wars in the Middle East. But last weekend, he joined Israel’s air campaign against Iran, bom...
Iran, Israel, and the Middle East in Tumult
Less than a week ago, on June 12, Israel launched a barrage of attacks against Iran, targeting nuclear sites, missile depots, and military and politic...
What Trump Gets Wrong About the Global Economy
U.S. President Donald Trump famously tweeted during his first term, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” But the record of the trade war that Trump...
Another China Is Possible
It has become a trope to lament and lambast the wishful thinking that shaped U.S. policy toward China in the two decades after the Cold War. That poli...
Sudan’s Intractable War
The war in Sudan gets only a fraction of the attention that conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and potential conflicts elsewhere get. But after two years o...
Can Trump Remake the Middle East?
Donald Trump just finished his first tour of the Middle East since returning to the White House. The region has changed a lot since he was last there...
Has the United States Gone Rogue?
In a little more than 100 days, Donald Trump has set about dismantling much of the international order that has prevailed since World War II. That’s t...
Understanding How Trump Sees the World
Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy, released at the end of 2017, announced the start of a new era for American foreign policy—one that pu...
Planning for a Post-American Future in Ukraine
Donald Trump famously promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of returning to the White House. But he is just over 100 days into his presid...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Fix Global Trade
Donald Trump’s embrace of tariffs should come as no surprise. For decades, he has claimed that other countries are ripping Americans off—and promised...
Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power
For years in U.S. foreign policy circles, discussions of China focused on its growing wealth, power, and ambition, and the fear that it would supplant...
How Latin America Can Survive an Age of Turmoil
For decades, it has been a trope of foreign policy commentary in the United States that Washington does not pay enough attention to its own hemisphere...
Where Is the U.S.-China Relationship Headed?
Two months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S.-Chinese relationship—the most consequential one in the world by a long stretch—fac...
What Does Trump See in Putin?
Not even two months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump is reshaping U.S.-Russian relations at a critical juncture for the war in Ukrain...
Where Does Ukraine Go From Here?
After three years of war, Ukraine is facing intense pressure from Donald Trump to reach a settlement with Russia. Trump has engaged directly with Russ...
Bonus: Is America on the Path to Authoritarianism?
A month into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, many are alarmed by what they see as emerging signs of democratic erosion. In a new...
What Happened to Bidenomics?
From record-low unemployment to strong GDP growth, the Biden administration presided over what appeared to be a strong economic recovery in the afterm...
Putin’s Fight Won’t End With Ukraine
After nearly three years of war, the mood among many of Ukraine’s allies has turned grim. Russian forces are making steady gains; Kyiv is running low...
How Will the World Navigate Trump’s Return?
With Donald Trump about to return to the White House, leaders around the world are bracing for what could be a significant realignment in U.S. foreign...
Bonus: In the Room With Xi Jinping
The United States’ relationship with China has scarcely been so contentious. Over the last several years, the two powers have butted heads over issues...
Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?
Over the past century, the world’s population has exploded—surging from around one and a half billion people in 1900 to roughly eight billion today. B...
Antony Blinken on American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age
In the four years since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, the geopolitical landscape has radically changed. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought w...
Total War Is Back. Can America Adapt?
Over the last few years, the world has seen the outbreak of a kind of war that had long seemed like a thing of the past. There was Russia’s invasion o...
Trump and the Crisis of Liberalism
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election comes at a moment of turbulence for global democracy. It’s been a year marked by almost...
Bonus: The World of Trump 2.0
Earlier this week, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, ushering in a new era of uncertainty at home and abroad.