Americas

The Israeli leader sought to sideline the Palestinians while wooing the Arab states. Now he faces a bloody backlash.

Dozens of top U.S. national security posts sit empty amid crisis.

Washington doesn’t have to restrict chip exports to control the technology’s future development.

A complicated history looms over the latest effort to fix the country’s security crisis.

Washington has emboldened violence from partners such as India and Saudi Arabia.

And that isn’t bad news for the United States.

Why it matters, and how worried we should be about it.

Riyadh wants big concessions from Washington in exchange for normalizing ties with Israel. Biden should ask for big concessions in return.

The security of clean energy is easier to manage than the security of oil.

The Biden administration has been laying the groundwork for a big meeting with Xi Jinping.

The inauspicious return of the Cold War strategy of “Pactomania.”

The Inflation Reduction Act is Washington’s boldest climate policy ever—but still woefully insufficient.

A new book argues countries are de-globalizing yet again. But was there ever such a thing as globalism to begin with?

Sen. Bob Menendez’s indictment will shape the future of Congress’s foreign policy.

Why Biden’s solidarity with autoworkers is globally unprecedented.

Washington’s key diplomatic assets have become a political bargaining chip.

But only some countries have turned up their climate ambition.

World leaders are betting big on clean hydrogen. How much of it is hype?

Washington is committed to partnership with New Delhi, despite U.S. intelligence cooperation in the Hardeep Singh Nijjar case.

Presidents, officials, and candidates tend to fall into six camps that don’t follow party lines.

The Biden administration has refrained from issuing a strong statement about allegations that the Indian government was involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist.

The historian with a million Substack subscribers describes how Americans can hit reset.

Beijing’s censorship has pernicious effects on artists and educational institutions—but abandoning all cultural ties would do more harm than good.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson charts the roots of 21st-century disinformation—and how American democracy began to falter.

Congressional performance artists are holding U.S. foreign policy hostage.

A new inquiry may expose Beijing’s reach in Ottawa.

Adam Tooze answers listener questions about inflation.

Moscow’s war in Ukraine has created an opening for Washington as a new great game heats up

Trudeau’s accusations suggest New Delhi’s intelligence operatives could lead it down a dark path.

Implying China mostly uses ethnically Chinese assets is both wrong and dangerous.

Warsaw’s strategic role in Europe is too important for Washington to ignore.

At the United Nations, Lula makes the case for Brazil.

The idea of emerging power centers is popular but wrong—and could lead to serious policy mistakes.

A recent book makes the case for collaboration in an increasingly competitive industry.

The United Nations has given the international community the greenlight to punish Sri Lanka for torture. Congress has taken it.

Ahead of a presidential election, debate in Buenos Aires reveals the mounting challenges of multi-alignment.

The Canadian leader has accused New Delhi of involvement in the assassination of a Sikh activist, bringing simmering tensions to the surface.

Both nations are championed by Washington but under threat from revanchism.

World leaders need to care about fish as much as they do about semiconductors.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination has created a diplomatic crisis.

Recent strides in chipmaking and artificial intelligence show Beijing’s post-export control world taking shape. 

The USAID administrator says U.S. contributions to the U.N. are at a “high watermark.”

Fear of Chinese influence must not take precedence over protecting democracy.

Tens of thousands of Afghans are stuck in immigration limbo—or still hiding under Taliban rule.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on reforming the world’s biggest multilateral organization.

As another multilateral forum issued a watered-down statement, Russia and North Korea met to deepen military ties.

While international backers of Pinochet’s 1973 takeover increasingly admit blame, Chile’s resurgent far right is bringing defense of dictatorship back into the mainstream.

The bloc’s divide over China pushes members to go their own way.

Force won’t get to the root of the country’s crisis. But smart monetary policy will.

Elected officials, not electorates, are the primary barrier to redistributive policies that would benefit the world’s poorest countries.

And what it means for future negotiators.

Over the past two years, China has enacted some of the world’s earliest and most sophisticated rules for AI.

Pyongyang has given up on normalizing relations with Washington.

Inertia and rivalries are producing a dangerous breakdown of multilateralism.

Foreign Policy's Fall 2023 Issue: Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done.

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

Small coalitions are a smart alternative to cumbersome multilateralism and formal alliances.

But the bloc’s future could look very different from its past.

Even if a formal U.S.-Japan-South Korea pact is unlikely, tighter coordination is unavoidable.

The United States’ and Canada’s chief cyberdefenders talk adversaries and AI.

As a new book shows, it’s not always about strategy.

The semiconductor and its near-divine creation story.

An adventurous book explores an unknown world.

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 2: A new development in Guatemala’s election, China’s charm offensive, and African leaders’ call to the international community.

Reflections of a career-long public policy professor at a time of global upheaval.

Next year’s near-simultaneous elections and a spiral of escalatory rhetoric spell danger, but there is a way out.

A trendy idea among GOP candidates would fail, just as it did in Colombia.

Princeton University’s G. John Ikenberry on alliances and the new world order.

It’s time for Washington to see through the Kremlin’s mind games.

The Republican presidential candidate’s foreign-policy platform is false advertising.

History suggests the Republican Party will continue to argue over foreign policy beyond the MAGA era.

Attempts to build a left-wing occultism are fundamentally unserious.

A new U.S. approach can redress past errors.

To Milton Friedman, it was a metaphor for free market economics.

China’s EV industry is ascendant everywhere—except the U.S. Is that about to change?

The last international agreement on digital crime was in 2001. Why are experts so worried about this one?

A military long shaped by Washington’s priorities now needs to modernize.

Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies.

The bloc’s new members include countries New Delhi is keen to expand ties with.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives visited Brazil, Chile, and Colombia to show how the United States could strengthen ties in the region.

New additions to the bloc from Africa are linked by their opposition to a Western-dominated financial system.

Pacific nations are bearing the brunt of the new cold war.

Trudeau’s ambitious plan to increase immigration is facing pushback from the left and right.

Three of Washington’s most beloved residents are heading back home, ending an era amid frostiness in U.S.-China relations.

The Seed Movement got lucky, but it also made its own luck.

Even without Trump in the room, the Republican Party’s biggest foreign-policy fight is over Ukraine.

The collapse of a landmark agreement would deal another blow to already fraught U.S.-China research collaborations.

The successful lunar mission, coming on the heels of Russian failure, could accelerate a long-running space race.

The buzzword is everywhere, but defining the concept of U.S.-China de-risking isn’t so easy.

The presidential front-runner may be hard to pin down politically, but his “us vs. them” rhetoric is part of a long Latin American tradition.

New policy tools have made once-profitable institutions into money-losers.

Amid a stalemate at the border, it’s clear that Xi Jinping still has the upper hand.

Americans and Chinese have to rehumanize each other in terms of the way we conceive of our problems and engage.

Like atomic energy, geoengineering could change the nature of the world. That’s why it needs international guardrails and guidelines.

The logic of reducing dependence always ends in a downward spiral.

The weather-related hazards will hit hardest in countries that are ill-equipped for the economic and political fallout.

Undeterred by Western pressure, a record number of countries want to join the group ahead of the annual summit.

New restrictions on U.S. investments in high-tech sectors follow a trend of foreign firms fading out.

The state will remain a destination for foreign investment due to a skilled workforce, leadership in water conservation, and low tax burdens.

Hackers, students, and government officials gathered at DEF CON to push chatbots over the edge.