Foreign Affairs

It is time to admit that there is a central defect in the United States’ current approach to the Gulf.

Economists must rethink their models in the age of cheap money.

Binyamin Appelbaum reviews Mike Konczal’s “Freedom From the Market.”

In his insightful new book, the historian Rana Mitter opens a window into the legacy of China’s experience of World War II.

Biden asserted that the United States would be “back at the head of the table.” But a return to the pre-Trump status quo is impossible.

Biden must rediscover Obama’s patient optimism.

Beijing doesn’t oppose monopolies on principle, but even tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent must put party over profit.

Trump’s draconian legacy on immigration will be hard to expunge.

Tension and competition between the United States and China are inevitable. War, however, is not.

The United States and its Gulf partners should consider a fresh approach that makes use of their wealth and countervailing soft power.

The military brass in Yangon never relinquished control.

Violent extremism in the United States demands a social response.

Even with Trump’s defeat, the rest of the world cannot ignore the country’s deep and disfiguring scars. They will not soon heal.

Counterterrorism without counterinsurgency is impossible.

A U.S. strategy for the Indo-Pacific today would benefit from incorporating lessons from nineteenth-century European history.

Biden’s foreign policy agenda will depend on domestic renewal.

The armed, pro-Trump mob that stormed Congress Wednesday made the world’s greatest democracy look like a banana republic in the grips of mob rule.

The Biden administration should take new steps early on to lessen the risk of the United States being whipsawed by foreign crises.

A political settlement in Afghanistan could serve as the foundation of a more ambitious and effective Asia policy.

A viable immunization is good news, but it won’t mean the end of masks and social distancing.