Foreign Policy

The militant group mines almost half a billion dollars a year from Afghan soil—and wants more.

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

How not to evaluate American grand strategy.

The NGOs and activists criticizing the commission’s inaugural report are distorting its contents.

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has already started. It’s just happening in cyberspace.

U.S. officials still likely to use the General Assembly to push for more pressure on Iran.

The best way to advance U.S. interests isn’t to chastise the United Nations—it’s to participate actively in its proceedings.

The postwar institution designed to maintain global peace has fallen short of many goals, but on the whole succeeded.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

“We don’t need a cheering section,” said Trump’s U.N ambassador. But Washington does need international compliance to make snapback sanctions work.

It doesn’t matter whether Bush or Trump was worse when the problems are the same.

No matter the president, Washington won’t stand for Brasilia’s growing ties with Beijing.

Scotland, six years after its last crack at independence, is hankering to be a “global good gal,” charting its own foreign-policy course independent of London.

Why Pankaj Mishra sees the ideology’s limits more clearly than its most powerful fans.

Republicans prepare to confirm her replacement as Democrats cry foul.

Washington’s reliance on sanctions and maximum pressure will make it harder to strike a new deal constraining Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

A string of assassinations has spawned conspiracy theories and intercommunal suspicion, threatening the country’s stability.

The burning of the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos has exposed the EU’s short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective approach to asylum.

Skyrocketing housing prices threaten South Korea, the plight of LGBTQ people in Kashmir, and rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in Argentina. 

‘Under Beijing’s Shadow’ lays out in compelling detail how China is working to dominate the region.