Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksDiplomacy The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacyforeignaffairs.com - William J. Burns In my three and a half decades as a U.S. Foreign Service officer, proudly serving five presidents and ten secretaries of state from both parties, …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksUkraine Welcome to the U.S. Future—It Looks a Lot Like the Ukrainian Pastforeignaffairs.com - Maksym Eristavi The impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump has pulled my homeland, Ukraine, into the spotlight, and more Americans are talking about it …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksIcon version of the Flipboard logoPeace Peace Is Slipping Away in Colombiaforeignaffairs.com - Paul J. Angelo Between 2000 and 2015, the United States provided Colombia—a country plagued by political and social strife—with more than $10 billion in aid in …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksU.S. Supreme Court The End of Asylumforeignaffairs.com - Nanjala Nyabola A small tent city is taking shape in Tapachula, on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, and its inhabitants are living proof of the systematic erosion of …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksSyria Turkey’s Endgame in Syriaforeignaffairs.com - Gonul Tol In a stunning announcement on Sunday, the Trump administration gave the nod to a Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria, an operation …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksGordon Brown The Not So Special Relationshipforeignaffairs.com In 2009, as then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was preparing to visit President Barack Obama in the White House for the first time, his aides …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksChina The Unwinnable Trade Warforeignaffairs.com - Weijian Shan In late June, the leaders of China and the United States announced at the G-20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, that they had reached a détente in their …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksForeign Policy Reclaiming Republican Foreign Policyforeignaffairs.com President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy is the same as his approach to domestic policy: that of a wrecking ball. He prefers to denigrate …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksSusan Rice Obama’s Idealistsforeignaffairs.com - Peter Beinart The events that Susan Rice and Samantha Power describe in their new memoirs of their time in the Obama administration occurred only a few years ago. …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksT.S. Eliot An Odyssey Through the Post-Fact Worldforeignaffairs.com - Robert Zaretsky “Each generation must translate for itself”: Few works better illustrate T. S. Eliot’s observation than Homer’s Odyssey. Since the epic was first …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksChina Without Democracy, China Will Rise No Fartherforeignaffairs.com - Jiwei Ci China has been busy rising, and an alarmed United States has been busy repositioning itself. Neither shows much interest in what is arguably the most …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksJapan How Japan Could Go Nuclearforeignaffairs.com - Mark Fitzpatrick Can Japan resist the temptation to pursue nuclear weapons in an increasingly volatile region? It's up to Washington to help Tokyo feel safe.
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksForeign Policy The Usurpation of U.S. Foreign Policyforeignaffairs.com - Mira Rapp-Hooper Last week’s revelation that Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden was …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksWar The Unwanted Warsforeignaffairs.com - Robert Malley The war that now looms largest is a war nobody apparently wants. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump railed against the United States’ …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksJoseph Stalin Putin Welcomes Stalin Back to the Pantheonforeignaffairs.com - Andrei Kolesnikov On November 10, 1982, the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died. The editors of Pravda, the country’s main newspaper, confronted something of a dilemma. …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksChina China’s Neo-Maoist Momentforeignaffairs.com - Elizabeth Economy Few countries commemorate historical milestones with the zeal of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and 2019 offers a bonanza of celebratory …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksHong Kong How China Sees the Hong Kong Crisisforeignaffairs.com - Andrew J. Nathan Massive and sometimes violent protests have rocked Hong Kong for over 100 days. Demonstrators have put forward five demands, of which the most …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksBaghdad The Long Game in Iraqforeignaffairs.com - Robert S. Ford, Randa Slim Last week, rockets landed in what was once known as the Green Zone—the heavily fortified neighborhood in western Baghdad where the American embassy …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksDonald Trump Reckless Choices, Bad Deals, and Dangerous Provocationsforeignaffairs.com - Hal Brands Superpowers have a lot of room for error. Unlike lesser nations, they can shrug off many of the consequences of failed policies. Their weight and …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksMozambique Peace Is a Losing Strategy in Mozambiqueforeignaffairs.com - Corinna Jentzsch On August 6, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and Ossufo Momade, leader of the rebel group turned opposition party Renamo, signed a peace deal that …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksDonald Trump “America First” Means a Retreat From Foreign Conflictsforeignaffairs.com - Charles Kupchan If U.S. President Donald Trump’s address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday is remembered for anything, it will be for what was not said. …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksNews Media How Americans Were Driven to Extremesforeignaffairs.com - Thomas Carothers, Andrew O'Donohue Every day brings more evidence of the United States’ profound political polarization. Partisan intransigence, vitriol, and divisiveness now …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksGuatemala Guatemala Is No Safe Third Countryforeignaffairs.com - Adriana Beltrán On July 26, under pressure from Washington, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales signed a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump that would …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksGreenland The Arctic Springforeignaffairs.com - Heather A. Conley On August 15, The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had expressed interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark. The …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksIran Iran Is Testing the Trump Administrationforeignaffairs.com - Dennis Ross On September 14, drones and cruise missiles struck Saudi Arabia’s most important oil-processing facility, at Abqaiq. The attacks don’t just threaten …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Energy and ClimateIcon version of the Flipboard logoClimate Climate Change Is Already Killing Usforeignaffairs.com - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus As world leaders gather on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at the UN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Energy and ClimateIcon version of the Flipboard logoClimate Climate Change Is Already Killing Usforeignaffairs.com - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus As world leaders gather on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at the UN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksNuclear Weapons Will Nuclear Weapons Make A Comeback?foreignaffairs.com - Eric Brewer Last month, the United States withdrew from a landmark missile treaty with Russia. Another crucial arms control treaty, the New START agreement, is …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksClimate Change Climate Change Is Already Killing Usforeignaffairs.com - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus As world leaders gather on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at the UN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global …
Foreign Affairsflipped into Foreign Affairs Editors' PicksKashmir Winning Kashmir and Losing Indiaforeignaffairs.com - Pratap Bhanu Mehta In a sweeping and controversial move on August 5, India transformed its relationship to the disputed territory of Kashmir. The government of Prime …