Why America and China are the world's only great powers.

When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, Europe faced a choice. As Trump made draconian demands for greater European defense spending, threatened European exports with ...

As the Turkish Republic enters its second century, the world around it has become more complicated and less forgiving than ever before. The order that anchored global politics for decades is giving ...

With democracies under siege around the globe, it is tempting to see an independent press as freedom’s bulwark. In 2023, for instance, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called independent ...

In his first term, Trump openly disparaged longtime European allies, pulled out of international treaties such as the Paris climate agreement, and decried how the United States was subsidizing its ...

In his first term as U.S. president and on the campaign trail for reelection in 2024, a variety of Donald Trump’s instincts were visible. One was an appreciation of power for its own sake. For Trump, ...

Deep skepticism has surrounded U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to settle the Russia-Ukraine war. Ukraine, backed by Europe, has been clear that it is not prepared to accept terms that ...

It has become conventional wisdom that the strikes launched on Iran this year by Israel and the United States, and the shattering of Tehran’s allies and proxy militias in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, ...

The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump rekindled a decades-old debate about nuclear testing. “Because of other countries testing programs,” he wrote on social media, “I have instructed the Department ...

In the meantime, fear of the war in Ukraine spilling over into eastern Europe—spurred by Moscow’s mindless provocations and penchant for hybrid warfare—has driven increased defense spending and ever ...

In no small part, the outcome of any peace process will be shaped by what Palestinians themselves think. Immediately after the October 7, 2023, attacks, Palestinians rallied behind Hamas and broadly ...