Foreign Policy

Decentralizing power can be key to long-term peace.

It’s more likely to inflame nationalist sentiments than change anything on the ground.

A rich and strong nation can pay for its own military.

Career diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley will be tasked with reversing the department’s record of big promises and little results.

Let India buy its weapons from Moscow. The real strategic threat is Beijing.

Just like Roosevelt, Biden must show that government still works.

What the new president really thinks about the military—and what the military really thinks about him.

A cycle of deadlocked elections has left the country without a functioning administration—and a foreign policy set on autopilot.

Former foes have found a common enemy in the TPLF. Will it lead beyond battlefield cooperation?

Even as the fund forecasts growth across all regions, the recovery is still likely to favor those states with vaccine access and fiscal flexibility.

The pandemic’s impact shows growth is an arbitrary target.

The Navy’s favorite tool in Asia is deeply flawed.

The West’s economic orthodoxy of the past 40 years has been shaken by the pandemic—but the fight isn’t nearly over yet.

Many in Beijing realize a declining international reputation won’t help the country achieve its goals.

Peter Dutton stopped the refugee boats. His next job is stopping Beijing’s maritime militia.

Claims that the rivalry is purely geopolitical don’t hold water.

In both the U.S. and EU, antitrust and regulatory efforts against Facebook, Google, and Amazon are gaining traction. But no one’s about to break them up.

Washington promised to bring liberal democracy to Kabul. It created a bloated and ineffective sector of artificial NGOs instead.

The outcome of today’s vote could decide whether the island bucks environmental concerns and embraces its potential as a rare-earth powerhouse.

The country says it wants to pivot from hard power to economic power, but its economy begs to differ.