How ‘Free Zones’ Became the Middle Eastern Diplomacy Tool of Choice The special economic zones are meant to quietly bring countries together before more public realignments. But do they? Foreign Policy · Oct 1, 2020
Beware the China Reset Biden shouldn’t be tempted by business as usual with Beijing. Foreign Policy · Oct 1, 2020
Trump Officials Seek to Push Social Conservative Values in International Agreements The U.S. administration exports anti-abortion policies abroad and strips international agreements of references to “sexual orientation” and “gender identities.” Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable There are big problems with the United Nations’ most important environmental metric. Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
How to Trim the Defense Budget Without Harming U.S. Security The first step is deciding what the United States wants its military to do. Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
Washington, Trump, and Cults of Personality American democracy began by rejecting one potential strongman. Protecting it requires rejecting another. Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
America Is About to Enter Its Years of Lead Trump’s calls for political violence are a familiar far-right strategy. Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
Why the United States Shouldn’t Sell Jets to the UAE Selling F-35s to the United Arab Emirates could give Russia access to U.S. technology and erode Israel’s regional military edge. Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
U.S. at Risk of Being Outpaced by China, a New Intel Committee Report Finds An assessment by the House Intelligence Committee says the United States will be hard-pressed to meet China’s multidimensional challenge if it stays in a counterterrorism… Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
Welcome to a Brand-New Middle East Israel’s pacts with the UAE and Bahrain go far beyond the tenuous “cold peace” with Egypt and Jordan. They could even help end the conflict… Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
Washington’s ‘Blind Eye’ Toward Human Rights Abuses in Latin America Would a Biden administration put the swagger back into America’s championing of human rights in the region? Foreign Policy · Sep 30, 2020
Global Capital Is the Tail That Wags the U.S. Economic Dog Economists have long imagined that the free movement of capital around the world benefits the U.S. economy. It doesn’t. Foreign Policy · Sep 29, 2020
America Needs to Prosecute Its Presidents Pardoning Trump, like Nixon before him, would be a disaster. Foreign Policy · Sep 29, 2020
Trump’s Pick to Replace Ginsburg Could Make the Supreme Court ‘America First’ The late Ginsburg championed international law. Amy Coney Barrett has argued that what the world thinks is at best superfluous. Foreign Policy · Sep 29, 2020
Foreign Policy · Sep 29, 2020 American Leaders Sold a Dream of Changing China Advocates of engagement are now downplaying the missionary impulse. That’s not what U.S. presidents said at the time.
Foreign Policy · Sep 29, 2020 The Latest Brexit Crisis May Save Ireland’s Shaky Coalition Government Brexit may be fatal for Dublin in the long term. But for now, it’s a boon to the country’s historic—and fragile—coalition.
Foreign Policy · Sep 28, 2020 Syria’s Forgotten Displaced Aren’t Equipped to Fight the Pandemic The regime has restricted aid to those who fled Afrin in 2018, leaving them without test kits, basic supplies, or access to specialist care.
Foreign Policy · Sep 28, 2020 Were They Lost Students or Inept Spies for China? Two roommates traveling in Florida found themselves caught in the teeth of espionage fears.
Foreign Policy · Sep 28, 2020 Ethiopia’s Power Play on the Nile Has Left the Region in a Deadlock As long as the Renaissance Dam remains an instrument in Ethiopia’s bid to control the Blue Nile, negotiations are doomed.
Foreign Policy · Sep 27, 2020 The Arab World Is Having a Jewish Revolution The real achievement of the Abraham Accords isn’t geopolitical—it’s cultural.
Foreign Policy · Sep 27, 2020 Can One Woman Fix a Failed State? Hodan Osman couldn’t stamp out Somalia’s endemic corruption. But she made sure the country’s soldiers got paid.
Foreign Policy · Sep 25, 2020 Want to Learn How the Pentagon Works? Then Play This Board Game. A new game meant to help the U.S. government write the 2018 National Defense Strategy shows what happens when resources and commitments collide.
Foreign Policy · Sep 25, 2020 Can Thailand’s Protest Movement Broaden Its Appeal? To succeed, the protesters will have to overcome old regional and class divides—and new ones, along generational lines.
Foreign Policy · Sep 25, 2020 The State Department’s Struggles to Diversify Just Got Harder Trump’s executive order taking aim at diversity training could make it even harder to fix the State Department’s dismal record on inclusion.
Foreign Policy · Sep 25, 2020 How Xi Just Saved the World In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change.