Foreign Affairs

The true story of 2008 forces a question about the future of financial globalization: How will a multipolar world that has moved beyond the transatlantic structures of the last century cope with the next crisis?

Sixty days since the Singapore summit, North Korea continues to expand its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals and has played its diplomatic hand brilliantly. 

The rise of right-wing populism in the West is primarily a story of culture and identity, in particular the fear among white voters across the West that their cultures and identities are under threat. Both the left and the right, however, have colluded in propping up the falsehood that populism is mostly about disparities of wealth and power.

Trump officials can secure large reductions in Iran’s oil exports. But doing so requires the administration to navigate both complex global oil markets and a multilevel diplomatic game.

The postwar international order is not a myth, nor was its creation an accident.

Tunisia has seen several major human rights victories in recent years, mostly thanks to the efforts of civil society organizations (CSOs). But a recent law passed by the parliament threatens the freedom of CSOs and could be a setback for Tunisia's fragile democracy. 

International cooperation was crucial to beating the last outbreak of Ebola. It will be equally crucial for the next one.

Although Japan is taking steps to fill labor shortages and de-ethnicize its migrant labor schemes, it is too soon to tell whether these signal a true liberalization of immigration policy rather than a tinkering with an illiberal status quo.

This election, like virtually every previous election in Pakistan, will have few consequences for Pakistan’s behavior at home or abroad.

Following the success of the notionally pro-indepence party in the 2016 election in Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a campaign to pressure Taiwan to accept the inevitability of unification with China. But polls show that amongst the population of Taiwan, support for unification with China is decreasing over time. As Taiwan continues to resists Beijing's efforts, an escalation in tensions between the two governments is likely on its way. 

If Washington wants to counter Iranian influence in Yemen, it needs to end its support for the Saudi-led coalition and throw its weight behind peace talks.

Australia has finally passed tough new laws against foreign political meddling.

The Zimbabwean presidential election appears to be less an effort at restoring the voice of the country’s long-suffering citizenry than a charade aimed at the international community.

Social media companies will be best able to play a productive role in preventing midterm election interference when informed by the government’s latest, best understanding of what that interference could look like.

The fast-approaching deadline for agreeing to the conditions for the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU and to move to the transitional phase of Brexit have placed a time bomb under the May government.

For the better part of two decades, Iran’s leadership has been hedging against international isolation by developing deeper ties with China and Russia. 

Although the upcoming Pakistani elections are being supervised by a neutral interim civilian government, the real power appears to rest with Pakistan’s military and the judiciary, which see undiluted democracy as a threat.

There’s reason to think that the real cyberthreat from Russia today is an attack on critical infrastructure in the United States—including one on the power grid that would turn off the lights for millions of Americans. Washington must take urgent action to deter hackers, diagnose vulnerabilities in the grid, and prepare for counteroffensive operations.

In the face of a growing Russian threat to the interests of the United States at home and around the globe, Washington still lacks anything resembling a grand strategy to meet it, as the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit showed.